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• Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

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  Adam, Said, Knows

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Cat Among the Pigeons”, HarperCollins

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• When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

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  Honesty, People, Looks

  Agatha Christie (2003). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Detective Story”, p.124, Modern Library

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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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• 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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• 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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• I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

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  Loyalty, Believe, I Believe

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

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  Use, Guessing, Detectives

  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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• 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 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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• Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

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  Duty, Oneself

  Agatha Christie (1997). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.” “I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.” Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes

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  Wise, Hurt, Believe

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

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• And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

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  Views, Together, Would Be

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• "I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

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  Math, Exercise, Men

  Agatha Christie (1980). “Five complete Miss Marple novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

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  Writing, Shy, Aptitude

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

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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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• What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

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  Travel, America, Revolution

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

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  Horse, Wonderful, Knows

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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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