Top 100 Agatha Christie Quotes
#1. You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
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#2. Writers are diffident creatures
they need encouragement.
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#3. Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.
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#4. A secret de Polichinelle is a secret that everyone can know. For this reason the people who do not know it never hear about it - for if everyone thinks you know a thing, nobody tells you.
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#5. There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.
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#6. This book is dedicated to the many readers in this and in other countries who write to me asking: 'What has happened to Tommy and Tuppence? What are they doing now?' My best wishes to you all, and I hope you will enjoy meeting Tommy and Tuppence again, years older, but with spirit unquenched!
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#7. Curious, sometimes, how one's thoughts seemed to swing in a kaleidoscope. It happened to me now. A bewildering shuffling and reshuffling of memories, of events. Then the mosaic settled into its true pattern.
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#8. Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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#9. There comes to everyone a turning point in their lives, M. Poirot. They stand at the crossroads and have to decide. My profession interests me enormously; it is a sorrow - a very great sorrow - to abandon it. But there are other claims. There is, M. Poirot, the happiness of a human being.
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#11. The body - the cage - is everything of the most respectable - but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
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#12. He thought: Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther ... you've come to the end of things ... . He knew, suddenly, that he didn't want to leave the island. VI
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#14. I know enough of life to know that you can never judge any case on its outside merits.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ...
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#17. Nobody shall drive us away," I said. "We're going to be happy here." We said it like a challenge to fate.
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#18. He was a man of whom nearly everybody was a little afraid. Why this last was so can hardly be stated in definite words. There was a feeling, perhaps, that he knew a little too much about everybody. And there was a feeling, too, that his sense of humor was a curious one.
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#19. She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.
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#20. The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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#21. Fellow has the wrong clothes and all that. French chap-or Belgian. Queer fellow, but he's got the goods all right.
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#23. Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.
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#24. once a weak person gets really frightened, they get quite savage with terror and they've no self-control at all.
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#25. You don't stop being in love with anyone because you get old. People like Derek and Deborah think you do. They can't imagine anyone who isn't young being in love.
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#26. What a lot of funny people it does take to make a world.
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#27. From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.
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#28. Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?"
"Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot.
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#29. By Jove, Poirot,' I exclaimed, 'did you see that young goddess?' Poirot
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#30. Evidence of identification was given by the husband, and the only other evidence was medical. Heather Badcock had died as a result of four grains of hy-ethyl-dexyl-barbo-quinde-lorytate, or, let us be frank, some such name.
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#31. Yes," said Miss Marple. "The children of Lucifer are often beautiful - And as we know, they flourish like the green bay tree.
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#32. It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!
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#33. I do think you should be more careful how you choose your friends. You are so credulous, dear, so easily gulled. I suppose it is being a writer and having so much imagination. If you were older and had more experience of life you would have been on guard at once.
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#34. Funny, just this minute he didn't want much to get away from the island.
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#35. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
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#38. There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
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#39. It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
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#41. Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken
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#45. So many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly. Mr.
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#46. There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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#47. I've been in love once and if I felt it coming on again I tell you I'd emigrate.
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#49. The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.
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#51. The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
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#52. Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.
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#53. More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.
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#54. When people ask "Do you put real people in your books?" the answer is that, for me, it is quite impossible to write about anyone I know, or have ever spoken to, or indeed have even heard about! For some reason, it kills them for me stone dead.
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#55. Every woman should make one mistake matrimonially. - Alex Restarick
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#57. I felt a distinct pleasure in passing on my own discomfiture.
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#58. Yes. She rebelled, I suppose, against being made to live in the past. After all, there's a time for everything. You can't sit in the house with the blinds down forever.
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#59. He's very nice," said Mrs. Clayton, "but not quite quite, you know. Hasn't got any idea of culture." Richard found his room exceedingly comfortable, and his appreciation of Mrs. Clayton as a hostess rose still higher.
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#60. I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow
to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.
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#62. Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.
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#63. HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide]
J: People do.
HC: Yes, perhaps. If you're doing things in a mood of hot despair. But when it's cold despair, it's different. I've nothing to live for, you see.
~Hilary Craven; Jessop
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#66. Her real passion in life was the perfection of a filing system beside which all other filing systems should sink into oblivion. She dreamed of such a system at night.
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#67. Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is
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#68. I never prophesy," he declared pompously. "It is true that I have the habit of being always right - but I do not boast of it.
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#69. When will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself. Usually for the man she loves. Always for her children.
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#70. A large fierce-looking dog whom Poirot suspected of having mange growled from his position on a moderately comfortable fourth chair.
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#71. I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood;
Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-read heath,
The red-ribb'd ledges drip with a silent horror of blood
And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers "Death".
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#72. Don't be offended because I think you're young. Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.
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#73. Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes adn inclinations is the most important consideration.
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#74. I use the word drifted advisedly. I have read novels in which young people are described as bursting with energy - joie de vivre, the magnificent vitality of youth ... Personally, all the young people I come across have the air of animal wraiths.
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#77. And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her
a sense of the loveliness of the world
of her own intense enjoyment of that world.
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#78. I suffer," said Hercule Poirot to himself in acute self-pity. "Yes, I suffer.
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#79. You might start a new religion yourself, with the creed: 'There is no one so clever as Hercule Poirot, Amen, D. C. Repeat ad lib.'!
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#82. 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 ...
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#83. Yew berries?" "Berries or leaves. Highly poisonous. Taxine, of course, is the alkaloid.
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#84. Activity was always to Inspector Slack's taste. To rush off in a car, to silence rudely those people who were anxious to tell him things, to cut short conversations on the plea of urgent necessity. All this was the breath of life to Slack.
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#85. No sign, so far, of anything sinister - but I live in hope.
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#86. It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
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#87. Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine. Nine
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#89. The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.
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#90. And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-"
"Ah, no, my friend-"
"From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.
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#91. It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?
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#92. Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.
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#93. ... Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.
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#94. Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?
Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.
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#95. 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]
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#96. They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!
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#97. Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?
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#98. A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men.
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#99. You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.
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#100. You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy.
'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance.
'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy.
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