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Agatha Christie Inspirational Quotes (363)

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Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
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The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.
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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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The truth often does sound unconvincing.
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I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.
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Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!
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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
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Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
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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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He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.
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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.
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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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These little grey cells. It is up to them.
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I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.
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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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