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Agatha Christie quotes: Just for a moment I hated Lymstock and its narrow boundaries, and its gossiping whispering women. Just for a moment I hated Lymstock and its narrow boundaries, and its gossiping whispering women.
Agatha Christie quotes: Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money - or the lack of it. Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money - or the lack of it.
Agatha Christie quotes: In fact-Dr. Sheppard! In fact-Dr. Sheppard!
Agatha Christie quotes: They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice! They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!
Agatha Christie quotes: A ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously. A ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously.
Agatha Christie quotes: Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do. Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.
Agatha Christie quotes: Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable. Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.
Agatha Christie quotes: No," said Miss Marple. "You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years. No," said Miss Marple. "You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.
Agatha Christie quotes: We established ourselves on the grassy knoll as Poirot had suggested, We established ourselves on the grassy knoll as Poirot had suggested,
Agatha Christie quotes: I can look after her all right, sir," said Tommy, at exactly the same minute as Tuppence said, "I can take care of myself. I can look after her all right, sir," said Tommy, at exactly the same minute as Tuppence said, "I can take care of myself.
Agatha Christie quotes: I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies. I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
Agatha Christie quotes: When I want to get anywhere, I usually do. When I want to get anywhere, I usually do.
Agatha Christie quotes: No innocent person ever has an alibi. No innocent person ever has an alibi.
Agatha Christie quotes: A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life. A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.
Agatha Christie quotes: People who can be very good can be very bad too. People who can be very good can be very bad too.
Agatha Christie quotes: You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst! You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!
Agatha Christie quotes: One may live in a big house and yet have no comfort. One may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.
Agatha Christie quotes: I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling. I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.
Agatha Christie quotes: Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget. Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
Agatha Christie quotes: Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him. Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him.
Agatha Christie quotes: Miss Marple made a ladylike noise of vexation like a cat sneezing to indicate profound disgust. Miss Marple made a ladylike noise of vexation like a cat sneezing to indicate profound disgust.
Agatha Christie quotes: The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world. The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
Agatha Christie quotes: She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.
Agatha Christie quotes: You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them. You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.
Agatha Christie quotes: Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next. Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.
Agatha Christie quotes: I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things. I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.
Agatha Christie quotes: All women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend. All women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.
Agatha Christie quotes: Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide. Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.
Agatha Christie quotes: If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life. If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.
Agatha Christie quotes: Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you. Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.
Agatha Christie quotes: Because, you see, if the man were an invention - a fabrication - how much easier to make him disappear! Because, you see, if the man were an invention - a fabrication - how much easier to make him disappear!
Agatha Christie quotes: Monsieur, pray confine yourself to the point. Monsieur, pray confine yourself to the point.
Agatha Christie quotes: A more sensitive man than Canon Prescott might have felt that he was de trop. A more sensitive man than Canon Prescott might have felt that he was de trop.
Agatha Christie quotes: Mary Jordan did not die naturally. It was one of us, I think I know which one. Mary Jordan did not die naturally. It was one of us, I think I know which one.
Agatha Christie quotes: DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL. DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL.
Agatha Christie quotes: Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband. Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.
Agatha Christie quotes: How tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day. How tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
Agatha Christie quotes: Exactly. Au revoir!" Whittington Exactly. Au revoir!" Whittington
Agatha Christie quotes: Do a thing well then leave it alone . Do a thing well then leave it alone .
Agatha Christie quotes: Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance? Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?
Agatha Christie quotes: Yew berries?" "Berries or leaves. Highly poisonous. Taxine, of course, is the alkaloid. Yew berries?" "Berries or leaves. Highly poisonous. Taxine, of course, is the alkaloid.
Agatha Christie quotes: Belgian stranger - all Belgian stranger - all
Agatha Christie quotes: One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers. One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
Agatha Christie quotes: But yes, exactly that. Think! With thought, all problems can be solved. But yes, exactly that. Think! With thought, all problems can be solved.
Agatha Christie quotes: Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing. Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing.
Agatha Christie quotes: Do you know this part of the world well? Do you know this part of the world well?
Agatha Christie quotes: Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness! Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness!
Agatha Christie quotes: She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth. She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth.
Agatha Christie quotes: Ahh it rejoices the heart. Nothing here offends the eye"~Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie) Ahh it rejoices the heart. Nothing here offends the eye"
~Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)
Agatha Christie quotes: Hate doesn't last. Love does. Hate doesn't last. Love does.
Agatha Christie quotes: One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice. One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.
Agatha Christie quotes: A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy. A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.
Agatha Christie quotes: Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating about them. Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating about them.
Agatha Christie quotes: She sipped once more. She sipped once more.
Agatha Christie quotes: She had a great power of love and hate but no stability. That's what's so sad for anyone, to be born with no stability. She had a great power of love and hate but no stability. That's what's so sad for anyone, to be born with no stability.
Agatha Christie quotes: If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust. If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.
Agatha Christie quotes: 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. 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.
Agatha Christie quotes: Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living. Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
Agatha Christie quotes: "Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters." "Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."
Agatha Christie quotes: The human and personal element can never be ignored. The human and personal element can never be ignored.
Agatha Christie quotes: More children suffer from interference than from noninterference. More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.
Agatha Christie quotes: Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it. Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
Agatha Christie quotes: It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.Miss Marple from A Sleeping Murder. It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.
Miss Marple from A Sleeping Murder.
Agatha Christie quotes: The trouble in this life is that you never really know where you're going.~Andy Peters The trouble in this life is that you never really know where you're going.

~Andy Peters
Agatha Christie quotes: No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest. No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.
Agatha Christie quotes: She couldn't let the past go and she could never see the future as it really was, only as she imagined it to be. She couldn't let the past go and she could never see the future as it really was, only as she imagined it to be.
Agatha Christie quotes: Assumptions are dangerous things. Assumptions are dangerous things.
Agatha Christie quotes: The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind. The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind.
Agatha Christie quotes: There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha Christie quotes: Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with. Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.
Agatha Christie quotes: It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us. It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us.
Agatha Christie quotes: It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
Agatha Christie quotes: The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me. The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.
Agatha Christie quotes: Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool. Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
Agatha Christie quotes: Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie quotes: The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter. The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.
Agatha Christie quotes: A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought. A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.
Agatha Christie quotes: Only mothers can't say they don't want their children and just go away. Only mothers can't say they don't want their children and just go away.
Agatha Christie quotes: It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth! It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!
Agatha Christie quotes: Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine. Nine Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine. Nine
Agatha Christie quotes: It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man. It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.
Agatha Christie quotes: These older people were the limit... They harped on things so. These older people were the limit... They harped on things so.
Agatha Christie quotes: Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself. Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.
Agatha Christie quotes: In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy. In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.
Agatha Christie quotes: Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted. Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.
Agatha Christie quotes: There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -""I am desolated!""That's a good boy! There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -"
"I am desolated!"
"That's a good boy!
Agatha Christie quotes: Is no one incapable of murder? Is no one incapable of murder?
Agatha Christie quotes: Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them. Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.
Agatha Christie quotes: A very correct butler opened the door, with just the right amount of gloom in his bearing. A very correct butler opened the door, with just the right amount of gloom in his bearing.
Agatha Christie quotes: One never quite allows for the moron in our midst. One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
Agatha Christie quotes: If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever ... That means-that there is no more death ... If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever ... That means-that there is no more death ...
Agatha Christie quotes: The truth often does sound unconvincing. The truth often does sound unconvincing.
Agatha Christie quotes: The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen. The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.
Agatha Christie quotes: It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to. It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
Agatha Christie quotes: Death in the Clouds Death in the Clouds
Agatha Christie quotes: Ulick Norman Owen - Una Nancy Owen - each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN! Ulick Norman Owen - Una Nancy Owen - each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!
Agatha Christie quotes: The Coroner said graciously:"I have heard of you, M. Poirot," and Poirot made an unsuccessful attempt to look modest. The Coroner said graciously:
"I have heard of you, M. Poirot," and Poirot made an unsuccessful attempt to look modest.
Agatha Christie quotes: It is fundamentals that matter not the trappings. (Alice Cunningham) It is fundamentals that matter
not the trappings. (Alice Cunningham)
Agatha Christie quotes: Spider's Web * The Unexpected Spider's Web * The Unexpected
Agatha Christie quotes: The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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