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“Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“One of the oddest things in life I think is the things one remembers.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.
Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little child was born. And that is best of all, Ceddie, — it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a man has lived — even ever so little better, dearest.”
― frances hodgson burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy

“She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might sometimes forget that every one else was not so fortunate, and that one who is rich should always be careful and try to remember.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy

“What does it say?" asked my lord.
"It says, `Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she used to say when we were together. Every night she used to say that to me, and every morning she said, `God bless you all the day!' So you see I am quite safe all the time----”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy

“He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.”
― Burnett, Frances Hodgson, Little Lord Fauntleroy

“It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy

“Dearest says that is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy

“When a man is very good and knows a great deal, he is elected president.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy

“And that is best of all, Ceddie,—it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a man has lived—even ever so little better, dearest.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy

“marquises,”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy

“gay,”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy -

“is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people. That is just the way you are, isn't it?”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy

“Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I heard what you said just now to my friend Hastings. ‘A nice bright girl with no men friends.’ You said that in mockery of the newspapers. And it is very true—when a young girl is dead, that is the kind of thing that is said. She was bright. She was happy. She was sweet-tempered. She had not a care in the world. She had no undesirable acquaintances. There is a great charity always to the dead. Do you know what I should like this minute? I should like to find someone who knew Elizabeth Barnard and who does not know she is dead! Then, perhaps, I should hear what is useful to me—the truth.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“Who are you? You don't belong to the police?'
'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“There is nothing so terrible as to live in an atmosphere of suspicion - to see eyes watching you and the love in them changing to fear - nothing so terrible as to suspect those near and dear to you - It is poisonous - a miasma.”
― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“Tea's a thing that need never be finished.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night