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"Well, what are you doing? What have you done?” "I am sitting in this char,” said Poirot. "Thinking,” he added. "Is that all?” said Mrs. Oliver. "It is the important thing,” said Poirot. (Agatha Christie)
Tcha! Tcha!” cried Poirot irritably. "You argue like a child. View quote
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How averse human beings were ever to admit ignorance! View quote
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"It makes her rather alarming,” I said. "Sincerity has that effect,” said Miss Marple. View quote
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"Me, I am convinced it is the truth,” said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory. View quote
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He had not remembered her name, but he had seen her dance - had been carried away and fascinated by the supreme art that can make you forget art. View quote
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Without interest (hers not the type to wonder why!) but with perfect efficiently, Miss Lemon had fulfilled her task. View quote
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"No,” said Miss Marple. "Murder isn't a game. View quote
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Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do. View quote
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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think. View quote
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Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they've got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses. (Agatha Christie)
Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend. View quote
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And then, startling in its crisp transatlantic tones, a voice said: "Stick 'em up.” They swerved around. Schwartz, dressed in a peculiarly vivid set of striped pyjamas stood in the doorway. In his hand he held an automatic. "Stick 'em up, guys. I'm pretty good at shooting.” He pressed the trigger - and a bullet sang past the big man's ear and buried itself in the woodwork of the window. Three pairs of hands were raised rapidly. View quote
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Mon ami, if you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs. That is all I have done. View quote
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To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick. View quote
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Mademoiselle,” I said, "it is sometimes difficult for a dog to find a scent, but once he has found it, nothing on earth will make him leave it! That is if he is a good dog! And I, mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, am a very good dog. View quote
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Aha? You have been very clever, madame.” "No, I haven't really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.” "Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important. View quote
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Even the sensible and the competent have been given tongues by le bon Dieu - and they do not always employ their tongues wisely. View quote
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We had three servants, which was a minimum then. View quote
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Looking back, it seems to me extraordinary that we should have contemplated having both a nurse and a servant, but they were considered essentials of life in those days, and were the last things we would have thought of dispensing with. To have committed the extravagance of a car, for instance, would never have entered our minds. Only the rich had cars. View quote
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Servants, of course, were not a particular luxury–it was not a case of only the rich having them; the only difference was that the rich had more. (Agatha Christie)
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. View quote
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The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He's got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers! View quote
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Ah!” Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it. "Beware! Peril to the detective who says: ‘It is so small - it does not matter. It will not agree. I will forget it.' That way lies confusion! Everything matters. View quote
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I saw a particular personage and I threatened him - yes, Mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, threatened him." "With the police?" "No," said Poirot drily, "With the Press - a much more deadly weapon. View quote
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