Agatha Christie quotes - page 3

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books. (Agatha Christie)
there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic. View quote
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies. View quote
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. View quote
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You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. View quote
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One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition--and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do--clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth--the naked shining truth. View quote
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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. View quote
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Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things... (Agatha Christie)
Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder. View quote
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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool. View quote
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I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea. View quote
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Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know. View quote
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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. View quote
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Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham. View quote
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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries. View quote
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To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]. View quote
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I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. View quote
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A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy. (Agatha Christie)
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before. View quote
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You should employ your little grey cells. View quote
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There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves. View quote
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It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy. View quote
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