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Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 10

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

Agatha Christie “Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' (1920) ch. 10 (Hercule Poirot)

there is evil everywhere under the sun.

Agatha Christie (2010). “Evil Under the Sun (Poirot)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

Agatha Christie, Christie (1982). “Haloween Party”, Pocket

You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

Agatha Christie (2015). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Christie's Collections”, p.148, 谷月社

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

Marie Waife-Goldberg, Agatha Christie (1980). “My Father, Sholom Aleichem”, Pocket

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Agatha Christie (1971). “And Then There Were None”

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

Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage”

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Agatha Christie (2016). “The Witness for the Prosecution: And Other Stories”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

Agatha Christie (2010). “Crooked House”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

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Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing