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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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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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Long, Sensationalism, Dies

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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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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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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 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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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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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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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

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Too Late, Littles, Late

AGATHA CHRISTIE (1934). “MURDER IN THREE ACTS”

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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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One does what one can, not what one cannot.

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Life, Inspirational Life, Doe

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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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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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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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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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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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Selfish, People, Done

Agatha Christie “Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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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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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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... obsessions are always dangerous.

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Obsession, Dangerous

Agatha Christie (1944). “Crime reader”

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I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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Happiness, Success, Thinking

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lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

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Law, Lawyer, Knows

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

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If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

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Childhood, Away From You, Happy Childhood

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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Born: September 15, 1890
Died: January 12, 1976
Occupation: Novelist
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