Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 9

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• I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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  Cheer, Book, Murder

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• If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

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  Careers, Missing, Deceit

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

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• It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

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  Thinking, Skills, Ideas

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

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• Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

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  Christian, Mother, Princess

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• People who can be very good can be very bad too.

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  People, Very Good

  Marie Waife-Goldberg, Agatha Christie (1980). “My Father, Sholom Aleichem”, Pocket

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• I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

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  World, Wonder, Generalisation

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• A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

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  Men, Sheep, Littles

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

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• The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

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  Past, Gold, Daggers

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

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• ... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

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  Mean, Interesting, Way

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

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• If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

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  Thinking, Past, Alive

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

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• I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

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  Girl, Sex, Sorry

  "Postmark: Murder".

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• Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

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  Incidents, Spots, Fingers

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Endless Night”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

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  Kindness, Real, Mean

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• Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

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  Love Is, Waiting, Fundamentals

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

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• The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

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  Fighting, People, Would Be

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Sad cypress”

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• Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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  Encouragement, Needs, Need Encouragement

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

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  Ideas, Frightening, Knows

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

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• You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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  Reading, Doubt, Stories

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

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• There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.

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  Light, Color, People

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• Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

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  Mad, Sometimes, Method

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Christie's Collections”, p.137, 谷月社

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• It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

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  Quiet People, Vengeance, Temper

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

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• Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.

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  Strong, Men, Long

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Funerals are Fatal”

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• Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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  Success, Achievement

  Agatha Christie (1951). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

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  Simple, Police, Arrogance

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

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• Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

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  Real, Stage Performance, Perfection

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Crooked House”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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