The Thirteen Problems

Agatha Christie

Top 10 Best Quotes

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

“Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way." - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167”

“Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating about them.”

“I’ve no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.”

“Human nature is always interesting, Sir Henry. And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way.”

“Now, I dare say you modern young people will laugh, but when I am in really bad trouble I always say a little prayer to myself—anywhere, when I am walking along the street, or at a bazaar. And I always get an answer. It may be some trifling thing, apparently quite unconnected with the subject, but there it is. I had that text pinned over my bed when I was a little girl: Ask and you shall receive.”

“Miss Marple,' said Sir Henry, "you frighten me. I hope you will never wish to remove me. Your plans would be too good.”

“What I do realise is that women must stick together -- one should, in an emergency, stand by one's own sex.”

“This is real life; and real life stops just where it chooses.”

“I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you.”

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