Agatha Christie citations

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

“You should employ your little grey cells”

“When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”

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

“A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves”

“They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.”

“There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.”

“Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.”

“It's what's inthat makes you happy or unhappy.”

“One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.”

“He laughs best who laughs at the end.”

“At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.”

“Fear is incomplete knowledge.”

“Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.”

“Be sure thy sin will find thee out.”

“Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.”

“There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.”

“Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther… you've come to the end of things…”

“And then there were none.”

“To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.”

“I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.”

“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!”

“It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.”

“It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”

“You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.”

“Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.”

“People who can be very good can be very bad too.”

“To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..”

“What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.”

“No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.”