Agatha Christie Quotes

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

~ Agatha Christie

Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minded--face the truth, mademoiselle! Your friend died in the last resort, because she had not the courage to live. We may sympathize with her. We may pity her. But the fact remains--the act was hers--not another.

~ Agatha Christie

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

~ Agatha Christie

But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine.

~ Agatha Christie

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.”-Caroline to Ursual.

~ Agatha Christie

A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf.

~ Agatha Christie

A man in love is a sorry spectacle.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.

~ Agatha Christie

One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.

~ Agatha Christie

... Good gracious, Jerry, you'll probably have to marry the girl.'Joanna was half serious, half laughing.It was at that moment that I made a very important discovery.'Damn it all,' I said. 'I don't mind if I do. In fact - I should like it.'A very funny expression came over Joanna's face. She got up and said dryly, as she went toward the door, 'Yes, I've known that for some time...'She left me standing, glass in hand, aghast at my new discovery.

~ Agatha Christie

Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.

~ Agatha Christie

Sometimes, as a great treat, I was allowed to remove Nursie's snowy ruffled cap. Without it, she somehow retreated into private life and lost her official status. Then, with elaborate care, I would tie a large blue satin ribbon round her head - with enormous difficulty and holding my breath, because tying a bow is no easy matter for a four-year-old. After which I would step back and exclaim in ecstasy: Oh Nursie, you ARE beautiful! At which she would smile and say in her gentle voice: Am I, love?

~ Agatha Christie

All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new arrivals.

~ Agatha Christie

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

~ Agatha Christie

A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting.

~ Agatha Christie

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---but there's no one who knew me as a young girl---non one who belongs to the old days. I've been alone for quite a long time now.

~ Agatha Christie

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

Everybody said, Follow your heart. I did, it got broken

~ Agatha Christie

Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were natural, normal, everyday currency, but one had a suspicion that the whole thing was like an actor playing a part for perhaps the seven hundredth time. It was an automatic performance, completely divorced from what Mrs. Baker might really have been thinking or feeling.

~ Agatha Christie

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

~ Agatha Christie

Mademoiselle, I speak as a friend. Bury your dead! ... Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.''I'm sure that would suit dear Linnet admirably.'Poirot made a gesture. 'I am not thinking of her at this moment! I am thinking of you. You have suffered - yes - but what you are doing now will only prolong the suffering.

~ Agatha Christie

HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide]J: People do.HC: Yes, perhaps. If you're doing things in a mood of hot despair. But when it's cold despair, it's different. I've nothing to live for, you see.~Hilary Craven; Jessop

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

~ Agatha Christie

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again.Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

~ Agatha Christie

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

~ Agatha Christie

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

~ Agatha Christie

Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

~ Agatha Christie

Why didn't they ask the Evans?

~ Agatha Christie

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna - though not one or the other in particular. He was not definitely Jewish, nor definitely Greek nor Portugese nor Spanish, nor South American. What did seem highly unlikely was that he was an Englishman called Robinson.

~ Agatha Christie

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

~ Agatha Christie

In fact-Dr. Sheppard!

~ Agatha Christie

And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

~ Agatha Christie

One must always proceed with method. I made an error of judgment asking you that question. Toeach man his own knowledge. You could tell me the details of the patient's physical appearance- nothing there would escape you. If I wanted information about the papers on the desk, Mr. Raymond would have noticed anything there was to see. To find out about the fire, I must ask the man whose business is to observe such things. - Detective Hercule Poirot to Doctor Sheppard

~ Agatha Christie

Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused.

~ Agatha Christie

From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.

~ Agatha Christie