Agatha Christie Quotes
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No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.
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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 often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well
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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.
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I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.
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Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.” “I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.” Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes
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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
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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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It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.
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Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?
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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
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Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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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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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.
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there is evil everywhere under the sun.
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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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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
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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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One does what one can, not what one cannot.
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Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
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The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
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