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Agatha Christie Inspirational Quotes (363)

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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
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Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -The Blood-Stained Pavement
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Hate doesn't last. Love does.
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The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.
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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
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Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.
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One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
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It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.
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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
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Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.
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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
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Everybody always knows something, said Adam, even if it's something they don't know they know.
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Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?
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Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
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The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
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