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Agatha Christie Inspirational Quotes (363)

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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.
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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
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I am all that there is of the most real.
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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
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You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
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There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
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I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
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Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?
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I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.
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But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.
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Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.
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Look here, I said, people like to collect disasters.
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Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.
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It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
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I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.
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Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
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too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.
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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.
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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
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