Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 12

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• An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

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  Voice, Ugly, Faces

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

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• You should employ your little grey cells.

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  Cells, Littles, Should

  "The murder of Roger Ackroyd".

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• From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

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  Lust, Age, Very Strong

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

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• And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

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  Believe, Brain, Use

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

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• I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

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  Mean, Thinking, West Indies

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• a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

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  Oysters, People, Trouble

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• I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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  Stories, Detectives, Thrillers

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• You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

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  Wrath, Impossible, Should

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

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• the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

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  Art, Favors, Detectives

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

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• In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

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  Mean, People, Doe

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

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• And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

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  Taken, House, Bottles

  Agatha Christie (1980). “Remembered Death”, Pocket

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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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  Thinking, Eggs, Doe

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Five Little Pigs (Poirot)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

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  Exercise, Men, Self

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Murder in Retrospect”

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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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  Rich, Poor, Enchanting

  Agatha Christie (1968). “Endless night”

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• I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

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  Memories, Thinking, Self

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'

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  Girl, Taken, Years

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

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• Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

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  Nurse, People, Trouble

  Agatha Christie (1962). “Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress”

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• She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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  Writing, People, Lucky

  Agatha Christie (1993). “Elephants can remember”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

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  Sorry, Mean, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1967). “Murder in our midst”

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• Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

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  Believe, Taken, World

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1937). “Perilous Journeys of HERCULE POIROT: including The Mystery of the Blue Train, Death on the Nile and Murder in Mesopotamia”

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• Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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  Book, Writing, Months

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• I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

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  Fashion, Mistake, Divorce

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

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• At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

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  Sitting, Tables, Distinction

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

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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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  Believe, Paper, Frogs

  Agatha Christie (1993). “A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors”

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• Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

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  Sweet, Taken, Mind

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