If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
AGATHA CHRISTIEBut surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
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A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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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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