Agatha Christie Quotes

I loved her- I always loved her- no matter what she was-I wanted her safe- not shut up- a prisoner f...

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute befo...

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy...

The Roar of the engine penetrated through Bertram's Hotel from the street outside. Colonel Luscombe ...

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place...

I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly b...

Death was for-the other people.

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much aboutsentiment.

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take n...

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead...

In the midst of life, we are in death.

The innocent must not suffer.

She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: "You regard it as impossible that ...

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just...

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profe...

Sometimes, as a great treat, I was allowed to remove Nursie's snowy ruffled cap. Without it, she som...

What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given...

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them ...

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.Miss Marple

I always feel that young doctors are only too anxious too experiment. After they've whipped out all ...

Please don't be too prejudiced against the poor thing because she's a liar. I do really believe that...

… one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going...

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are neare...

The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

It's all very well to talk like that,” said Mr. Rafiel. “We, you say? What do you think I can do abo...

People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have row...

Don’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinso...

The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others but deprived of such nourishment ...

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it al...

the elephant can remember.

I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the peopl...

Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'inte...

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhap...

She didn’t want to die. She couldn’t imagine wanting to die…Death was for—for other people.

If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that the...

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; bu...

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---b...

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is ...

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.

Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all preh...

We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is ...

But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, eve...

One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many wa...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is...

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

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares a...

I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin w...

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

When the sun shines you cannot see the moon," he said. "But when the sun is gone ah,when the sun is ...

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the pi...

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through li...

I remember one teacher there -- I can't recall her name now. She was short and spare, and I remember...

...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superio...

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

You would hate people if you were like me… If you weren’t wanted.

It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But y...

Wwhat the hell? Weve all got to die sometime!

A man in love is an awful sight.

Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living.

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

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the cou...

The two words expressed volumes.

She's not sensual. She doesn't want affairs. It's just cold-blooded experiment on her part and the f...

The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through li...

A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an ...

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man a...

Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, ...

We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.

How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the coun...

Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.

Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minde...

I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatn...

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A crimin...

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be di...

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to ta...

A statesman in these days has a difficult task. He has to pursue the policy he deems advantageous to...

I will only ask you to believe one thing. I have faith in myself. I believe that I am the man to gui...

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.She shrugged her shoulders slig...

When he passed me in the restaurant," he said at last, "I had a curious impression. It was as though...

I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they fee...

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was...

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"It will not."If...

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or ...

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of...

Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. H...

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-""Ah, no, my friend-""From your point of view it would b...

In fact,' said Poirot, 'she stabbed him in the dark, not realising that he was dead already, but som...