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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.


Agatha Christie

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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
AGATHA CHRISTIE was suspicious, had always been suspicious, of mercy—too much mercy, that is to say. Too much merc...
AGATHA CHRISTIE It was not unknown in the present age for children to commit crimes, quite young children. Children ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE There is always a brave new world,” said Poirot, “but only, you know, for very special people. T...
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.
AGATHA CHRISTIE ...A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?"
"You don't believe in i...
AGATHA CHRISTIE You want beauty,” said Hercule Poirot. “Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was ...
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