Agatha Christie quotes - page 9

Perhaps a little of Trollope, but not to drown in him. (Agatha Christie)
It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation. View quote
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You have an excellent heart, my friend - but your grey cells are in a deplorable condition. View quote
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Handsome, strong, gay ... She felt again the thro and lilt of her blood. She had loved Kameni in that moment. She loved him now. Kameni could take the place that Khay had held in her life. She thought: "We shall be happy together - yes, we shall be happy. We shall live together and take pleasure in each other and we shall have strong, handsome children. There will be busy days full of work ... and days of pleasure when we sail on the River...Life will be again as I knew it with Khay...What could I ask more than that? What do I want more than that?" View quote
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Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and, lo, in a minute they are become discolored carnelians. A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end. View quote
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Darling,” she drawled, "won't that be rather tiresome? If any misfortunes happen to my friends I always drop them at once! It sounds heartless, but it saves such a lot of trouble later! View quote
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How convenient if you could ring up Harrods and say ‘Please send along two good murderers, will you? View quote
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But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method - a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence! View quote
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I have, perhaps, too professional a point of view where deaths are concerned. They are divided, in my mind, into two classes - deaths which are my affair and deaths which are not my affair - and though the latter class is infinitely more numerous - nevertheless whenever I come in contact with death I am like the dog who lifts his head and sniffs the scent. View quote
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"Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn't recognize Latin when he hears it,” said Joanna. View quote
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Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies! (Agatha Christie)
Two is enough for a secret. View quote
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This, Hastings, will be my last case. It will be, too, my most interesting case - and my most interesting criminal. View quote
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I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us - listening. one of us. View quote
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I always feel that the young doctors are only too anxious to experiment. After they've whipped out all our teeth, and administered quantities of very peculiar glands, and removed bits of our insides, they then confess that nothing can be done for us. I really prefer the old-fashioned remedy of big black bottles of medicine. After all, one can always pour those down the sink. View quote
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It is the kind of thing that happens to you when you are stupid," said Esa. "Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them. View quote
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There is no such thing as muddle - obscurity, yes - but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain. View quote
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The tear rose in Miss Marple's eyes. Succeeding pity, there came anger - anger against a heartless killer. And then, displacing both these emotions, there came a surge of triumph - the triumph some specialist might feel who has successfully reconstructed an extinct animal from a fragment of jawbone and a couple of teeth. View quote
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Miss Marple twinkled at me. View quote
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The crime is now logical and reasonable. View quote
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Never mind. I knew - that was the great thing. (Agatha Christie)
They are so busy knocking that they do not notice that the door is open! View quote
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See you, one should not ask for outside proof - no, reason should be enough. But the flesh is weak, it is consolation to find that one is on the right track. View quote
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Because, Renisenb, it is so easy and it costs so little labour to write down ten bushels of barley, or a hundred head of cattle, or ten fields of spelt - and the thing that is written will come to seem like the real thing, and so the writer and the scribe will come to despise the man who ploughs the fields and reaps the barley and raises the cattle - but all the same the fields and the cattle are real - they are not just marks of inks on papyrus. And when all the records and all the papyrus rolls are destroyed and the scribes are scattered, the men who toil and reap will go on, and Egypt will still live. View quote
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That was the worst of Dr Reilly. You never knew whether he was joking or not. He always said things in the same slow melancholy way - but half the time there was a twinkle underneath it. View quote
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