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Agatha Christie Inspirational Quotes (363)

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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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In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.
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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
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Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
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... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.
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Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.
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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!
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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
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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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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
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Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.
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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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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
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