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What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.
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It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
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The others went upstairs, a slow unwilling procession. If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling. But this house was the essence of modernity. There were no dark corners - no possible sliding panels - it was flooded with electric light - everything was new and bright and shining. There was nothing hidden in this house, nothing concealed. It had no..
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People who can be very good can be very bad too.
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To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
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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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Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together--and they call the result intuition.
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Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement"
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No sign, so far, of anything sinister--but I live in hope.
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The body--the cage--is everything of the most respectable--but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
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One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
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Two people rarely see the same thing.
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The past is the father of the present.
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One must make one's own mistakes
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There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, is it not? I have always admired red-haired women. Your hair is very beautiful. There are other things I like about you. Your spirit, your courage; the fact that you have a mind of your own. ~Mr. Aristides
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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.
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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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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away ...
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A man doesn't want to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)
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I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
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Fear, what a strange thing fear was...
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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 the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this - " he tapped his egg-shaped head - "this, that functions!"
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And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.
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Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.
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Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.
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The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.
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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
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The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.
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Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean." "Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so." "Why?" "Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle." "'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Le..
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Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I heard what you said just now to my friend Hastings. 'A nice bright girl with no men friends.' You said that in mockery of the newspapers. And it is very true--when a young girl is dead, that is the kind of thing that is said. She was bright. She was happy. She was sweet-tempered. She had not a care in the world. She had no undesirable acquaintan..
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Curious thing, rooms. Tell you quite a lot about the people who live in them.
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That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.
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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
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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, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)
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In everybody's life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known.
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When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.
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Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?
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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.
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