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Agatha Christie Inspirational Quotes (363)

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a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.
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marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.
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You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.
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Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.
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The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.
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Things never come when they are expected.
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if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.
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I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
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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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More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
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If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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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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Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
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It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
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It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.
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Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
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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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What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
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I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.
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Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.
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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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