Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 7

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• There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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  Work, Writing, Commitment

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• Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

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  Men, Nerves, Feels

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

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• If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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  Book, Determined, Ifs

  Agatha Christie (1950). “Murder Preferred”

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• It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

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  Cells, Brain, Littles

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• I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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  Education, Children, Learning

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.62, HarperCollins UK

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• Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

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  Sympathy, Drunk, Judging

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Starring Miss Marple”, Dodd Mead

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• I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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  Men, Arguing, Spite

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

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• The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

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  Children, Mother And Daughter, Years

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1969). “MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY”

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• It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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  New York, Writing, Cities

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

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  Loyalty, Thinking, Virtue

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Peril at End House (Poirot)”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

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  Spiritual, War, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1987). “There Is a Tide”

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• I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

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  Education, Father, Math

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

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• Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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  Long, Sensationalism, Dies

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• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

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  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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• Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

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  Coffee, Taste, England

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• No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

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  Funny, Beautiful, Drunk

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• When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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  Brain, Eating, Should

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

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• One does what one can, not what one cannot.

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  Life, Inspirational Life, Doe

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• Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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  Believe, Water, Pool

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

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• That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

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  Great Love, Tragedy, Stories

  Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.

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  Heart, Blow, Forgiving

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Murder on the links”

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• It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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  People, Doe, Violence

  Agatha Christie (1972). “Hercule Poirot's Christmas”

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• To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

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  Difficult, Preserves

  Agatha Christie, Christie (1982). “Haloween Party”, Pocket

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• When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

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  Men, Sea, Islands

  Agatha Christie (1982). “And Then There Were None”, Pocket

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• I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

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  Mean, Way, Looks

  Agatha Christie (2014). “The Dressmaker’s Doll: An Agatha Christie Short Story”, p.4, Harper Collins

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