Agatha Christie Quotes, Information Quotes, Assumption Quotes

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

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There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

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Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!

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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

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One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

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To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

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If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

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I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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