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

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all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

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Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

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Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

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It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

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There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

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I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

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Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.” “I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.” Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes

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One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

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Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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

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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

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the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

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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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You should employ your little grey cells.

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