Agatha Christie quotes - page 14

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away. (Agatha Christie)
I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back. View quote
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Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with. View quote
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Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true. View quote
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I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste. View quote
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In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed. View quote
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Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide. View quote
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I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what I have done is justified or not justified. No - I do not know. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands... But on the other hand, I am the law! View quote
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Believe me, nurse, the difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop. View quote
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I have given them life instead of death, freedom instead of the cords of superstition, beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation. View quote
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Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them. (Agatha Christie)
I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. View quote
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And then there were none. View quote
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Two people rarely see the same thing. View quote
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The world is full of good people who do bad things! View quote
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Fear, what a strange thing fear was... View quote
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I congratulate you on having such a unique and beautiful problem. View quote
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You arouse my gastronomical juices, madame. View quote
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For Poirot, uttering a hoarse and inarticulate cry, again annihilated his masterpiece of cards and putting his hands over his eyes swayed backwards and forwards, apparently suffering the keenest agony. "Good heavens Poirot!” I cried. "What is the matter? Are you taken ill?”. View quote
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Elinor was still staring at this missive, her plucked brows drawn together in distaste, when the door opened. The maid announced, "Mr Welman," and Roddy came in. View quote
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I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes... (Agatha Christie)
I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not - how shall I express it? View quote
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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or voluntary. View quote
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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours I found it quite enthralling. View quote
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I think you're begging the question,' said Haydock, 'and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that. View quote
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