Agatha Christie Quotes, Mother Quotes, Walking Away Quotes

I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

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a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

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Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

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Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

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I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

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That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

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And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

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The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.

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I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

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marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

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How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

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too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

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

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Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

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If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

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