Agatha Christie Quotes

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

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It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

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These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

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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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She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.

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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

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In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

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It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

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If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

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I am all that there is of the most real.

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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

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The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.

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