Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
AGATHA CHRISTIEToo 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.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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Books are a habit-forming drug.
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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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There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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Assumptions are dangerous things.
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It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
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To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.
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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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What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
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If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!
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I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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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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