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Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way. - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167

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Agatha Christie Human Behaviour Human Nature

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

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Agatha Christie Judgement Day Justice Mercy

She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not! The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice: My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.

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Agatha Christie Crimes Justice Punishment Relegion

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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Agatha Christie Crimes Justice Mercy Victims

She's not sensual. She doesn't want affairs. It's just cold-blooded experiment on her part and the fun of stirring people up and setting them against each other. She dabbled in that too. She's the sort of woman who's never had a row with anyone in her life--but rows always happen where she is! She makes them happen. She's kind of female Iago. She must have drama. But she doesn't want to be involved herself. She's always outside pulling strings--looking on--enjoying it!

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Agatha Christie Female Manipulative Woman

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.

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Agatha Christie Arrogance Attitude Life

He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision--concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind.

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Agatha Christie Concentration Focus Perception Perspective Vision

I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.

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Agatha Christie Boredom Youth

You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

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Agatha Christie Life Work Youth

And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on that account. Only by the young of course, but then, they would have thought indulgently, young people knew nothing about life. Poor dears, they were always worrying about examinations, or their sex life, or buying some extraordinary clothes, or doing some extraordinary things to their hair to make them more noticeable.

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Agatha Christie Life Old Age Youth

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.

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Agatha Christie Agatha Christie Five Little Pigs Hercule Poirot Youth

It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

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Agatha Christie Agatha Christie Five Little Pigs Hercule Poirot Murder Mystery Youth

Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding.

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Agatha Christie Youth

He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young?

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Agatha Christie Youth

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

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Agatha Christie Youth

Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?

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Agatha Christie Knowledge Protection Youth

It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.

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Agatha Christie Love Affairs Pride

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

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Agatha Christie Conceit Crime Pride Vice

Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have come to see gains that cannot be reckoned in terms of wealth, and losses that are more damaging than loss of a crop... I look at the River and I see the lifeblood of Egypt that has existed before we lived and that will exist after we die... Life and death, Renisenb, are not of such great account.

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Agatha Christie Death Existence Life Lifeblood

Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.

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Agatha Christie Influence Ownership Thought

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?'You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

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Agatha Christie Patience

Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once.

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Agatha Christie Crime

She breathed an enormous sigh, looked at Poirot, Looked away, and suddenly blurted out, You're too old. Nobody told me you were so old. I really don't want to be rude but - there it is. You're too old. I'm really sorry. She turned abruptly and blundered out of the room, rather like a desperate moth in lamplight. Poirot, his mouth open, heard the bang of the front door. He ejaculated: Non d'un nom d'un nom...

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Agatha Christie Crime Murder Suspense Thriller

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

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Agatha Christie Crime Detective

Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off because they were not his own eyebrows, but false ones. As she woke again, her first impression was that which often follows dreams, a belief that the dream in question had solved everything. 'Of course,' she thought, 'of course!' His eyebrows were false and that solved the whole thing. He was the criminal.

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Agatha Christie Crime Dreams Humor

If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death...

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Agatha Christie Crime Detective Love Romance

It's all very well to talk like that,” said Mr. Rafiel. “We, you say? What do you think I can do about it? I can't even walk without help. How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock.

~ Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie Crime Humour

It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun’.

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Agatha Christie Crime Insightful Insprational

A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.

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Agatha Christie Child Hero Worship Young Mind

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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Agatha Christie Computers Errors Technology

The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.

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Agatha Christie Diversion Eye Vision

It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.

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Agatha Christie Dirty Job Rotten Gotta Do It

The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind.

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Agatha Christie Law

Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.

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Agatha Christie Alone Falsity Imaginary Melodrama

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

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Agatha Christie Ideas Plots Writing Writing Life

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.

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Agatha Christie Murder

That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering...

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Agatha Christie Murder Remembering

[Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don't know how that shadow is going to affect our lives.

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Agatha Christie Innocence Murder

People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

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Agatha Christie Love Murder

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

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Agatha Christie Death Of A Loved One Hercule Poirot Murder
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