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• It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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  People, Doe, Violence

  Agatha Christie (1972). “Hercule Poirot's Christmas”

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• Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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  Believe, Water, Pool

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage”

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• ... obsessions are always dangerous.

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  Obsession, Dangerous

  Agatha Christie (1944). “Crime reader”

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• When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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  Brain, Eating, Should

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

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  Brain, Use, Fluff

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Starring Miss Marple”, Dodd Mead

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• 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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  Children, Mother And Daughter, Years

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1969). “MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY”

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• the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

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  Today, Tomorrow

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• It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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  Running, Strong, Book

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• Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

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  Ideas

  Agatha Christie (2003). “Ordeal by innocence: Cat among the pigeons”

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• Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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  Punishment, Evil, Secret

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

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  Coffee, Taste, England

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• No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

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  Funny, Beautiful, Drunk

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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.

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  Education, Father, Math

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

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  Needs, Desperate, Remedy

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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  Ignored, Instinct, Marvelous

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• There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

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  People, Mets, Certain

  Agatha Christie (1974). “Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air”, Dodd Mead

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• I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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  Education, Children, Learning

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.62, HarperCollins UK

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• Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

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  Despise, Things To Do, Courses

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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• Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

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  Sports, Surfing, Cursing

  Agatha Christie (1931). “The man in the brown suit”

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• That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

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  Spiritual, War, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1987). “There Is a Tide”

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• We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

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  Simple, Achievement, Great Inventions

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• I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

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  Writing, Should Have, Imagine

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• When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

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  Men, Sea, Islands

  Agatha Christie (1982). “And Then There Were None”, Pocket

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• In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

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  Impossible, Arise, Conversation

  Agatha Christie (1972). “Hercule Poirot's Christmas”

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• You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

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  Ends, Glad

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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