Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 15

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• He laughs best who laughs at the end.

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  Laughing, Ends

  Agatha Christie (1986). “The Big Four”

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• You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

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  Self Esteem, Agree, Esteem

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• I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

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  Lying, People, Way

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

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• There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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  Conscious, Tact, Irritating

  agatha christie (1941). “n or m?”

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• You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

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  Thinking, Towns, Littles

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

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• Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

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  Running, Size, Wells

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1965). “agatha christie”

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• I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

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  Uncles, Aunt, Looks

  Agatha Christie (2011). “Miss Marple – Miss Marple and Mystery: The Complete Short Stories (Miss Marple)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

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  Rely Upon, Psychology, Experts

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

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  Ocean, Pregnancy, Voyages

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

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• Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

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  Giving, Teeth, Trouble

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

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  Clever, Undoing, Cleverness

  Agatha Christie (2009). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Edition”, p.274, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

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  Knitting, Blood, Sitting

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• Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

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  Horse, Wonderful, Knows

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• There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

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  Energy, Whiplash, Hung

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

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• And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

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  Idols, Casts, Left

  Agatha Christie (1946). “Murder After Hours, the Hollow”

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• Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

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  Love, Pride, Doubt

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• Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there.
  Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.

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  Hate, Home, Heart

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• Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

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  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Hate

  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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• It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

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  Book, Way, Exes

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

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• Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

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  Bars, Prisoner, Defence

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

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• Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

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  Men, Self, Mind

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

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• There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

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  Defence, Reproach, Conscience

  Agatha Christie (1986). “And then there were none”, Pocket

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• What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

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  Rose, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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

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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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  Giving, Failing, Conversation

  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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• 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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  Morning, Believe, Men

  "The Blue Geranium: A Miss Marple Short Story".

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