Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 10

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• Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

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  Girl, Morning, Night

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• ... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

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  Humility, Men, Two

  Agatha Christie (1951). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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  Voice, Evil, Missing

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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• I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

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  Husband

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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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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  Hands, Age, Detectives

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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• Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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  Evil, Literature, Superhuman

  Agatha Christie (1985). “The pale horse”, Pocket

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• Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

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  Dog, Book, Writing

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

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  Sorry, Block, Our World

  "Murder International: Including So Many Steps to Death Death Comes as the End Evil Under the Sun".

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• Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

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  Death, Science, Doctors

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

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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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  Women, Giving, Personality

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

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• The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

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  Girl, Men, Missing

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Thirteen at Dinner”, Berkley

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• Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

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  Eggs, Peculiar, Noise

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie's Poirot”, Fontana Press

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• Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

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  Liars, Men, Eyelashes

  Agatha Christie (1951). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

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  Mean, House, Might

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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• Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

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  Men, Thinking, Speech

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

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• One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

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  Things In Life, Twenties, Four

  Agatha Christie (1985). “The pale horse”, Pocket

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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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  Attitude, Soul, Mind

  Agatha Christie (1956). “Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table”

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• I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

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  Dog, Nice, Noses

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

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• These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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  Cells, Literature, Littles

  'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' (1920) ch. 10 (Hercule Poirot)

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• Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

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  Missing, Overcoming, Plymouth

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• The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

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  Law, Natural, Understood

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• 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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  Information, Assumption, Failing

  Agatha Christie (1965). “Poirot loses a client”, Dell Pub Co

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• All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

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  Writing, Typewriters, Dining

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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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  Safe And Sound, Long, Safety

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