Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 4

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• There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

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  Answers, Asks

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Moving Finger (Miss Marple)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

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  Logic, Method, Accomplish

  Poirot Investigates "The Kidnapped Prime Minister" (1924)

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• Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

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  Women, Knowing, Intuition

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

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• Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

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  Order, Life Is Like, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Sad cypress”

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• The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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  Inspirational, Life, Impossible

  "No one should condescend to Agatha Christie - she's a genius" by Sophie Hannah, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2015.

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• I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

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  Death, Waiting, Dying

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

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• There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

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  Children, Reality, Thinking

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

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• Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

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  Rivers, Church, Towns

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

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• I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

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  Long, Mind, Harmony

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• You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

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  Fighting, Age, Fighter

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

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• Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

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  Evil, Superhuman, Humans

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• Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

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  Courage, Brave, Certain

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

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• You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

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  Healing, Want, Said

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Hallowe'en party”, Pocket

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• Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

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  Children, Past, Views

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

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• It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

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  People, Wiping Out, Detective Work

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Death on the Nile”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Hate doesn't last. Love does.

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  Hate, Doe, Lasts

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

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• Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

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  Passion, Dark, Desire

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Lord Edgware Dies”, Berkley

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• fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

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  Thinking, People, Fiction

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• Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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  Memorable, Crime Novels, Literature

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Hercule Poirot's casebook”, Putnam Adult

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• You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

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  Dream, Loneliness, Home

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• There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

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  Character, Men, Feet

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Taken at the flood”, Berkley Pub Group

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• But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

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  Innocent Person, Murder, Human Nature

  Agatha Christie (1974). “Murder in the Calais Coach”, Simon & Schuster of Canada, 1940

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• The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

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  Return, Nostalgia, Courses

  Agatha Christie (1982). “At Bertram's Hotel”, Pocket

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• The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

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  Thinking, Mind, May

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

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• Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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  Children, Reading, Intuition

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