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Thinking Quotes by Agatha Christie
- One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
- There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
- 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…
- The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself…
- "I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have…
- I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion,…
- That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping…
- I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,…
- If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
- The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
- Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
- I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.
- Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
- You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher,…
- 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…
- Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up…
- fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
- I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because…
- I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find -…
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