Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
¶ (Attributed)
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Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
¶ (Attributed)
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 trouble.
¶ An Autobiography (1977)
Exactly! It is absurd — improbable — it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.
¶ Murder on the Orient Express [Poirot] (1934)
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
¶ The ABC Murders, ch. 17 (1936)
Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
¶ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd [Poirot] (1926)
I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
¶ The Mysterious Affair at Styles [Poirot] (1920)
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
¶ The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Ch. 11 (Poirot) (1911)
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