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Agatha Christie quotes

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“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Instinct is a marvellous thing . . . It can neither be explained nor ignored.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.” Agatha Christie, Secret Adversary
“There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have to mine.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.” Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders
“They tried to be too clever—and that was their undoing.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“when you find that people are not telling you the truth—look out!” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them—and, that way she missed love.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy, so much so that, on dying, he left the place to her for her lifetime, as well as the larger part of his income; an arrangement that was distinctly unfair to his two sons.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined — sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured — so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness!” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“You're an old woman, Emily, and there's no fool like an old fool.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“you're over-civilized. You should look on death as the Oriental does. It's a mere incident—hardly noticeable.” Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

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