Agatha Christie citations

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“Les affaires - les affaires"-M. Bauc”

“Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time theto kill-though not theto kill.”

“I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog.”

“But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”

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

“An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”

“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

“It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”

“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”

“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”

“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”

“No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?
--Poirot”

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

“To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.

[author's dedication]”

“To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.”

“Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture.
Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.”

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

“Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.”

“Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.”

“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”

“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.”

“I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.”

“But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”

“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”

“One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”

“People should be interested in books, not their authors.”

“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.”

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.”

“A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.”

“Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.”