Agatha Christie on Knowledge
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Agatha Christie, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Agatha Christie, entry #114173: "I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them."
Attributed to Agatha Christie, entry #50499: "I have always been so sure — too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."
9 Quotes by Agatha Christie on Knowledge
"I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them."
"I have always been so sure — too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."
"“I am not very clever about Americanisms — and I understand they change very quickly."
"Nothing", I said sadly. "They are two delightful women!" "And neither of them is for you?" finished Poirot. "Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows?"
"“I agree with you. It is here a family affair. It is a poison that works in the blood — it is intimate — it is deep-seated. There is here, I think, hate and knowledge…"
"Fear is incomplete knowledge."
"Believe me, nurse, the difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop. At least that's the way it is with me when I have to make a speech. Someone's got to catch hold of my coat-tails and pull me down by main force."
"I must have a talk with you, David, and learn all the new ideas. As far as I can see, one must hate everybody but at the same time give them free medical attention and a lot of extra education, poor things! All those helpless little children herded into schoolhouses every day — and cod liver oil forced down babies’ throats whether they like it or not — such nasty-smelling stuff."
"Yes, a private investigator like my Wilbraham Rice. The public have taken very strongly to Wilbraham Rice. He bites his nails and eats a lot of bananas. I don’t know why I made him bite his nails to start with — it’s really rather disgusting — but there it is. He started by biting his nails, and now he has to do it in every single book. So monotonous."