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“What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.”

Agatha Christie book The Body in the Library

Source: The Body in the Library

“Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.

-"The Blood-Stained Pavement”

Agatha Christie book The Thirteen Problems

Source: The Thirteen Problems

“Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.”

Agatha Christie book Death Comes as the End

(1945)
Source: Death Comes as the End

“Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?”

Agatha Christie book Lord Edgware Dies

Source: Lord Edgware Dies

“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.”

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“Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away…”

Agatha Christie book After the Funeral

Source: After the Funeral (1953)
Context: There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

Agatha Christie book Death on the Nile

Source: Death on the Nile

“Two people rarely see the same thing.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the links

Source: The Murder on the Links

“And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.”

Agatha Christie book Lord Edgware Dies

Source: Lord Edgware Dies

“I like to see an angry Englishman,” said Poirot. “They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express

Source: Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the links

Source: The Murder on the Links

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

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“The past is the father of the present.”

Agatha Christie book Hallowe'en Party

Source: Hallowe'en Party

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

Agatha Christie book Endless Night

Source: Endless Night

“One must make one's own mistakes”

Agatha Christie book Cat Among the Pigeons

Source: Cat Among the Pigeons

“I am all that there is of the most real.”

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“I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.”

Agatha Christie book Murder in Mesopotamia

Source: Murder in Mesopotamia