All the same, lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily poisoned their husbands.
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SAMANTHA BOND Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
NANCY BANKS SMITH Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas presen...
KIMBERLEY NIXON Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it ha...
AGATHA CHRISTIE There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of he...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy th...
CASSANDRA CLARE Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha C...
DYLAN THOMAS I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).
CONNIE WILLIS And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-"
"Ah, no, my friend-"
"From your point of vie...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.
LYNN CAINE I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthu...
HA-JOON CHANG Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so oc...
OSCAR WILDE Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occu...
OSCAR WILDE Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from p...
PETER O'TOOLE There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.
SACHA GUITRY Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands...
JESSICA SAVITCH The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that t...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER We need to take into account that Asian women are more physically active, drink less alcohol, have c...
BRUCE TROCK This submission also perpetuates the myth that women should submit and be subservient to their husba...
BARBARA WARD Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually...
SOPHIE HANNAH You can't deal with being odd?
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Become like them...
Become drug delear...
DEYTH BANGER It was like an Agatha Christie thriller, trying to work out who this man was.
BARRY CRYER Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
INDRA DEVI Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER They need to buy clothes and their daily needs,
ALWI SHIHAB Paris is the destination for brokenhearted American women. I think men go there and have their heart...
WHIT STILLMAN Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy...
PAT ROBERTSON My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
JAMES DOBSON The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
THOMAS R. DEWAR The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
LORD THOMAS DEWAR The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
THOMAS DEWAR When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their ...
INDRA NOOYI I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorot...
KAZUO ISHIGURO Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their cloth...
MARCEL ACHARD Lots of women tell me I'm their idol.
JENNA JAMESON I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to de...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
KAREN DUFFY He rose, placed another small log on the fire, sat back down in his armchair, and opened his book. DAVID BALDACCI Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
AGATHA CHRISTIE I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE All we know is they have the clothes on their back, and that's it.
JOE MORALES Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; ...
ALYSSA SUTHERLAND Lots of times, the women just purchase their own materials.
MAEDYNE JENKINS You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for ...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS Their views don't necessarily reflect hers. But she will take them into account.
ANTONIA FERRIER I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes....
MAUREEN JOHNSON When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more ...
KIN HUBBARD When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more ...
KIN HUBBARD Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husban...
PAT ROBERTSON [Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husb...
PAT ROBERTSON I may not be the richest man in the world with money to dispose of at the same time my 3 sons will a...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Nor ,the food given by those who knowingly bear with paramours ,of their wives , and by those who in...
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GINGER YOWELL A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husban...
WASHINGTON IRVING How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN Agatha Christie n. A silent, putrid fart committed by someone in this very room...
VIZ If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more fool...
H. L. MENCKEN Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't wa...
MYRTLE REED Ah! Valere, all men say the same thing to women; all are alike in their words; their actions only sh...
MOLIERE We buy them from the same factories in China that make their shoes.
CAMERON BELK The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the i...
ELLEN KEY In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a ne...
KAREN ABBOTT A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband...
WASHINGTON IRVING Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, s...
SOPHIE HANNAH Basically all they have right now is the clothes on their back. All their Christmas stuff was in the...
DON BURNS Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!
AGATHA CHRISTIE It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers bu...
G.K. CHESTERTON All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
DELMORE SCHWARTZ And we poisoned their minds.
ERIC IDLE Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes a...
B. D. WONG I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reade...
A. S. BYATT In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They w...
JHUMPA LAHIRI London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thorou...
OSCAR WILDE It's a funny song and a funny video about a very serious topic. A lot of women die at the hands of t...
NATALIE MAINES In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to ...
DIANE GARNICK These are things that religions teach us and have taught us in the past, but people are not necessar...
MARCIA NELSON Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all...
SOPHIE HANNAH by implying that pro-choice Americans have the same values as terrorists, Hughes insulted millions o...
CAROLYN MALONEY To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all st...
SIMONE WEIL All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better ...
STAN FREBERG Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships...
STACY SCHIFF You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very...
CHARLESZETTA WADDLES You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very ...
CHARLESZETTA WADDLES Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of thei...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A lot of people buy it just to decorate their stables. We get lots of repeat customers.
RICHARD BROOKS We have a large pool of talented and educated women, and yet workplaces haven't necessarily chan...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER I laugh at people who think their spontaneous, yet plan their spontaneous moments.
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"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
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It ...
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Poirot stared straight a...
AGATHA CHRISTIE My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.
AGATHA CHRISTIE It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE What would Christie do?
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Use your little grey cells mon ami"
(Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles')
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AGATHA CHRISTIE I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatn...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Why didn't they ask the Evans?
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity
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AGATHA CHRISTIE I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the sam...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutelymiserable, racked with sorrow, but...
AGATHA CHRISTIE But I don't doubt it will be essentially the same type of crime. The details may be different, but t...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.
AGATHA CHRISTIE بينما تمضي الحياة ، ويصبح من المرهق الحفاظ على الشخصية ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Lies--and again lies--it amazes me, the amount of lies we had told to us this morning."
"There ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!
AGATHA CHRISTIE If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?"
"That is so."
AGATHA CHRISTIE One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Enemies! People these days don't have enemies! Not English people!
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!
AGATHA CHRISTIE She's not sensual. She doesn't want affairs. It's just cold-blooded experiment on her part and the f...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Com maior percepção do caráter inglês, servi uma forte dose de uísque com soda e coloquei-a na ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
AGATHA CHRISTIE You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The sim...
AGATHA CHRISTIE W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why.
AGATHA CHRISTIE You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a r...
AGATHA CHRISTIE No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and deares...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go...
AGATHA CHRISTIE One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
AGATHA CHRISTIE A sound of laughter was heard-they turned sharply. Vera Claythorne was standing in the yard. She cri...
AGATHA CHRISTIE That’s right,” said Mrs. Oliver in an exasperated voice, “blame it all on me as usual!
AGATHA CHRISTIE wanted to know.” “It’s better not to know. It’s better never to know. Better to leave things...
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AGATHA CHRISTIE May your moustaches never grow less.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Put that in your mustache and smoke it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE The past is the father of the present.
AGATHA CHRISTIE You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I...
AGATHA CHRISTIE A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
AGATHA CHRISTIE Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
AGATHA CHRISTIE A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and a...
AGATHA CHRISTIE You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
AGATHA CHRISTIE An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
AGATHA CHRISTIE There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She w...
AGATHA CHRISTIE One does feel proud to belong to the human race when one sees the wonderful things human beings have...
AGATHA CHRISTIE they are only full of pity for the young killer, because of his youth. Why should they not execute h...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Little by little the head emerged, preserved by the sludge for about 2,500 years. There it was–the...
AGATHA CHRISTIE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE On ülisuur viga lasta inimesel näha või kuulda valel ajal. Enamiku inimeste jaoks kaotab Shakespe...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I can suspend judgment on those who kill–but I think they are evil for the community; they bring i...
AGATHA CHRISTIE One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. you would not see it with the same ey...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Oh, the glorious relief, the wonderful relief when somebody knows what's in your mind and tells it t...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I was, like everyone else who wrote books or read them, against the criminal and for the innocent vi...
AGATHA CHRISTIE have a war memorial of my own at Greenway. In the library, which was their mess-room, an artist has ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE the horror of sitting at a tea table, looking across at my best loved friend, and suddenly realising...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Oh, you still don’t understand,’ he said impatiently. ‘I’ve fallen in love with her, and I�...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE