Agatha Christie: My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the poi...

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

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action way world

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

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weapons may remember

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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punishment secret evil

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

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impressive evil

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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voice evil missing

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

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mother-and-daughter children years

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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cities new-york writing

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

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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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towns church rivers

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

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I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

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girl morning night

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

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wrong-time hearing mistake

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

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sheep littles men

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.

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impossible-things six breakfast

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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violence doe people

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)