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Agatha Christie Inspirational Quotes (363)

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And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.
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Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
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That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe! M. Poirot are you quite mad? No, I am extremely sane.
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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.
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A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.
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And yet, said Poirot, suppose an accident- Ah, no, my friend- From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.
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An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.
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When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
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One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.
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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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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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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.
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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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Books are a habit-forming drug.
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One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.
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Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.
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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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The first time you do a thing is always exciting.
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... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.
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... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.
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And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!
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You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
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