It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
AGATHA CHRISTIEMany homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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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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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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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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Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
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Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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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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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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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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Very few of us are what we seem.
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