Agatha Christie Quotes, Simple Quotes, Police Quotes

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

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People should be interested in books, not their authors.

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... obsessions are always dangerous.

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

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I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

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At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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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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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

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I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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

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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

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I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

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I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

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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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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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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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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

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