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I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

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

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

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

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

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

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

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

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

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