I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
Agatha Christie
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JOHN B. BEJO The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, neve...
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DAR WILLIAMS You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
GEORGE HARRISON The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.
HENRY ROLLINS We're the only ones who have the antidote.
NESTOR SUAREZ There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
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MJ CHRISTINE I still get that. I tell them they are the ones with the accent, not me.
SEAN MCCURDY We think those may be the narrative ones,
GARY URTON Again, the only lists we have are ones we got legally.
JOHN MARSHALL Everybody would like to be remembered, the catch is do you want to be remembered for all the wrong r...
GARY F EVANS... God gives us enemies so we will appreciate those who love us.
JIM GENOVESE They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities
PHIL COLLINS You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Those are the ones that are most important and the easiest to solve.
DAVE BLOCK For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
GREG CHALMERS I'm one of the youngest ones,
CHRISTINA LEE They are hairy and like the ones in the movie arachnophobia.
SONYA BISSMIRE We're going back to remember the forgotten ones,
MERLE HAGGARD Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
KATE MORTON For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
BERNARD HOLLAND Many indicators have been winnowed down over the years to those that contribute the most. These are ...
JOHN CROSBY If you look at the quarters that have come out, the most striking ones are the ones that have very f...
MIKE JOURNEE Those [stocks] are the ones where you haven't had any pre-announcements.
CHUCK CARLSON It's been called, but the ones that you want to see called, probably don't get called. Put it that w...
BRET BIELEMA We were pulling out the close ones.
TIM CLELAND The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.
ROBERT JORDAN I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.
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EMMA DALEY ONE SHOULD USE ONES STRENGTHS AND WORK ON ONES WEAKNESSES !
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BETH BERNOBICH It's easier to make new friends than hold on to old ones.
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JEFFREY FRY Unless we learn to criticize friends, we shall never find true ones.
TARIF NAAZ Everybody in the NBA is good. And then you have the really good ones and the great ones.
KYRIE IRVING This will be a great opportunity to spend special time with best friends and loved ones.
LORRAINE PINO Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
WALTER HAGEN He kissed her as if he could breathe her in. Fierce kisses, hard ones, teasingly articulate ones, so...
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PATRICK NESS Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
ANONYMOUS Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold
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RICHARD BROOKS Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the bes...
JOYCE MAYNARD The greatest people and most successful ones are the ones who never went to school . Sure.
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THOMAS KRETSCHMANN The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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JUSTIN BARTHA Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay great ones - with ingratitude
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RAINBOW ROWELL The best lies to tell," said Jane, "are the ones people want to believe.
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ALEXANDER DOUGLAS-HOME the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe
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KAZUO ISHIGURO Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
KARL MENNINGER Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
KARL A. MENNINGER Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
JEANNE MOREAU Everybody counts—the Happy ones Count their Blessings and the sad ones Count their Troubles.
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CYNTHIA LONG The true ones are absorbed into the True Lord.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!
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AGATHA CHRISTIE You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"
It ...
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AGATHA CHRISTIE As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?'
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 Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
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AGATHA CHRISTIE The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fool...
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.
AGATHA CHRISTIE There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at st...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Ye Gods and Little Fishes," said Sir Henry, "can it be? George, it's my own particular, one and only...
AGATHA CHRISTIE It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again....
AGATHA CHRISTIE It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Why didn't they ask the Evans?
AGATHA CHRISTIE It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity
AGATHA CHRISTIE Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know q...
AGATHA CHRISTIE But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price
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 I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the...
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!
AGATHA CHRISTIE I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them ...
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.
AGATHA CHRISTIE What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as ...
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 All the same, lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily p...
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...
AGATHA CHRISTIE From what you read and hear nowadays, it seems that murder under certain aspects is slowly but surel...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The past is the father of the present,” said Poirot sententiously. He
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AGATHA CHRISTIE It was not unknown in the present age for children to commit crimes, quite young children. Children ...
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AGATHA CHRISTIE But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that h...
AGATHA CHRISTIE May your moustaches never grow less.
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"You don't believe in i...
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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