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Agatha Christie Inspirational Quotes (363)

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I admit, I said, that a second murder in a book often cheers things up. - Hastings
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
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I'm not often bored,' I assured her. Life's not long enough for that.
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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
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Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple
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People who can be very good can be very bad too.
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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!
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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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It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.
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Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]
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I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.
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The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety sanctification gives us the second - soundness.
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There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.
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One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
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Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
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My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
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Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
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The past is the father of the present.
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A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!
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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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