Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 11

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• One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

  Agatha Christie

  Facts, Rooms, Murderer

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• I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

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  Writing, Letters, Originality

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• The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

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  Dear Ones, Doubt, Wish

  Agatha Christie (1988). “Mrs. McGinty's Dead”, Bantam Books

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• I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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  Murder Mysteries, Literature, Quiet

  Agatha Christie (1971). “And Then There Were None”

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• It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

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  Men, Revolution, Honest

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Secret Adversary (Diversion Classics)”, p.71, Diversion Books

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• There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

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  Mean, Justice, Important

  Agatha Christie (1974). “Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air”, Dodd Mead

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• I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

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  Vegetables, Wish, Pity

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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• I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

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  Pay The Price, Want, Nine

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• there is evil everywhere under the sun.

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  Evil, Sun

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Evil Under the Sun (Poirot)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

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  Reason, Sentiments

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Christie's Collections”, p.148, 谷月社

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• How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

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  Intelligent, Perfect, Fool

  Agatha Christie (1931). “The man in the brown suit”

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• too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

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  Safety, Abhorrent, Too Much

  Agatha Christie (1975). “Curtain”

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• It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

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  Secret, Sin, Caps

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage”

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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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  Secret, Wish, Denial

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

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• Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

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  Ghouls, People, Literature

  Agatha Christie (2016). “The Witness for the Prosecution: And Other Stories”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Care

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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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  Differences, Comfort, Misery

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• In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

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  Writing, Mind, Flaws

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• Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

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  Facts, Absurd, Said

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

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• The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

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  Dream, Real, World

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

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• I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

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  People, Mad, Eccentric

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

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• Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

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  Tea, Cups, Said

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder, The Murder at the Vicarage”

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• There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.

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  Impossible Things, Breakfast, Six

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• If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

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  Surprise, Lied, Produce

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

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  Missing, Meals, Mystery

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

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