Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 6

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• Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

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  Ideas

  Agatha Christie (2003). “Ordeal by innocence: Cat among the pigeons”

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• I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

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  Believe, Silly, Way

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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  Technology, Errors, Trying

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Hallowe'en party”, Pocket

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• The truth often does sound unconvincing.

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  Sound, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1959). “Murder at the manor: The Seven dials mystery, Crooked House, Ordeal by innocence”

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• I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

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  Death Coming, Afraid Of Death

  Agatha Christie (1966). “And Then There Were None”

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• One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

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  Peace, War, Winning

  Autobiography (1977) pt. 10

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• Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

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  Anger, Safety, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1951). “The Under Dog: And Other Stories”, New York, Dodd, Mead [1951

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• If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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  Principles, Literature, Sticks

  Agatha Christie (1978). “The mousetrap, & other plays”, Putnam Adult

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• Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

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  Tea, Everyday, Ordinary

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead

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• I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

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  Morning, Feelings, World

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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• I am all that there is of the most real.

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  Real

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Third Girl (Poirot)”, p.39, HarperCollins UK

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• Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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  Punishment, Evil, Secret

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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  Happiness, Suffering, Atheism

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Remembered death”, Free Press

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• ... nothing is so boring as devotion.

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  Boring, Devotion, So Boring

  Agatha Christie (1972). “Hercule Poirot's Christmas”

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• ... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

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  Appeals, Tempted

  Agatha Christie (2003*). “Murder at the manor”

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• You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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  Imagination, Too Much, Elegance

  Agatha Christie (2009). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

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  People, Littles, Needs

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

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  Turning 50, Inspirational Birthday, 50th Birthday

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• To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

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  Brain, Goodness

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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• Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

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  Ideas, Clothings

  "Five complete Hercule Poirot novels".

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• Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

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  Men, Nerves, Feels

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

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  Sin, Thee

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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• There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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  Work, Writing, Commitment

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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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  Book, Determined, Ifs

  Agatha Christie (1950). “Murder Preferred”

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• It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

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  Cells, Brain, Littles

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