If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
AGATHA CHRISTIETrains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
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Books are a habit-forming drug.
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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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Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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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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It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
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Assumptions are dangerous things.
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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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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
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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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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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With thought, all problems can be resolved.
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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
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When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
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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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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Fear is incomplete knowledge.
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There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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