Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 9

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• Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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  Ideas, Plot, Hats

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• Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

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  Love Is, Waiting, Fundamentals

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

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• Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

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  Mad, Sometimes, Method

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Christie's Collections”, p.137, 谷月社

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• There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.

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  Light, Color, People

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• Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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  Success, Achievement

  Agatha Christie (1951). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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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.

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  Ideas, Frightening, Knows

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

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• You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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  Reading, Doubt, Stories

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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• One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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  Voice, Evil, Missing

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

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• There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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  Hands, Age, Detectives

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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• Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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  Evil, Literature, Superhuman

  Agatha Christie (1985). “The pale horse”, Pocket

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• Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

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  Men, Thinking, Speech

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

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• I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

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  Dog, Nice, Noses

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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• Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

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  Missing, Overcoming, Plymouth

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• The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

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  Law, Natural, Understood

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• Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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  Happiness, Suffering, Atheism

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Remembered death”, Free Press

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• I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

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  Information, Assumption, Failing

  Agatha Christie (1965). “Poirot loses a client”, Dell Pub Co

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• Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

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  Eggs, Peculiar, Noise

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie's Poirot”, Fontana Press

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• I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

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  Mean, Way, Looks

  Agatha Christie (2014). “The Dressmaker’s Doll: An Agatha Christie Short Story”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

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  Incidents, Spots, Fingers

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Endless Night”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

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  Facts, Rooms, Murderer

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• I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

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  Believe, Book, Memorable

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• Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

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  Attitude, Soul, Mind

  Agatha Christie (1956). “Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table”

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• The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

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  Dear Ones, Doubt, Wish

  Agatha Christie (1988). “Mrs. McGinty's Dead”, Bantam Books

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• Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

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  Husband

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

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• It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

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  Quiet People, Vengeance, Temper

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

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