Agatha Christie Quotes

She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?' 'I don't think that's possible,' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere.

~ Agatha Christie

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

~ Agatha Christie

I always feel that young doctors are only too anxious too experiment. After they've whipped out all our teeth, and administered quantities of very peculiar glands, and removed bits of our insides, they then confess that nothing can be done for us. I really prefer the old-fashioned remedy of big black bottles of medicine. After all, one can always pour those down the sink.

~ Agatha Christie

To cry at will is not an easy accomplishment.

~ Agatha Christie

Sloppy crying had never helped anyone yet.

~ Agatha Christie

For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.

~ Agatha Christie

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

~ Agatha Christie

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

~ Agatha Christie

In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered long afterwards with the utmost fidelity, driven in, as it were, by the mental stress of the moment. It may be some quite irrelevant detail, like the pattern of a wallpaper, but it will never be forgotten.

~ Agatha Christie

I've always jumped on sentiment—and here I am being more sentimental than anybody. What idiots girls are! I've always thought so. I suppose I shall sleep with his photograph under my pillow, and dream about him all night. It's dreadful to feel you've been false to your principles.

~ Agatha Christie

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

~ Agatha Christie

The innocent must not suffer.

~ Agatha Christie

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

~ Agatha Christie

Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.

~ Agatha Christie

But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves.

~ Agatha Christie

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

~ Agatha Christie

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.

~ Agatha Christie

Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based always, always on the relations of the sexes. If a man poisons his wife in order to travel to the North Pole or to enjoy the peace of a bachelor existence—it would not interest his fellow-villagers for a minute!

~ Agatha Christie

... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.

~ Agatha Christie

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.

~ Agatha Christie

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie