Agatha Christie Quotes

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

~ Agatha Christie

I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.

~ Agatha Christie

The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.

~ Agatha Christie

Take the Pyramids. Great blocks of useless masonry, put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic bloated king. Think of the sweated masses who toiled to build them and died doing it. It makes me sick to think of the suffering and torture they represent.Mrs. Allerton said cheerfully: You’d rather have no Pyramids, no Parthenon, no beautiful tombs or temples—just the solid satisfaction of knowing that people got three meals a day and died in their beds.The young man directed his scowl in her direction. I think human beings matter more than stones.

~ Agatha Christie

Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that's imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who've said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.

~ Agatha Christie

But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

~ 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

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

~ Agatha Christie

The amount of women you hear say, If Donald—or Arthur—or whatever his name was—had only lived. And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a stout, unromantic, short-tempered, middle-aged husband as likely as not.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is

~ Agatha Christie

If you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.

~ Agatha Christie

Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!

~ Agatha Christie

... suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of one's own and then, of course, after a time, one wouldn't be able to get back...

~ Agatha Christie

This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist.

~ Agatha Christie

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

~ Agatha Christie

Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's always very pleasant and all that, but one never seems to get to know her better.'Miss Marple agreed thoughtfully. 'One never knows what she is thinking.''Perhaps that is just as well.''I beg your pardon?''Oh nothing really, only that I've always had the feeling that perhaps her thoughts might be rather disconcerting.

~ Agatha Christie

The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

~ Agatha Christie

More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.

~ Agatha Christie

Child's evidence is always the best evidence there is. I'd rely on it every time. No good in court, of course. Children can't stand being asked direct questions. They mumble or else look idiotic and say they don't know. They're at their best when they're showing off.

~ Agatha Christie

They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit.

~ Agatha Christie

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

~ Agatha Christie

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

~ Agatha Christie

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.

~ Agatha Christie

All Egypt is obsessed with death! And do you know why, Renisenb? Because we have eyes in our bodies, but none in our minds. We cannot conceive of a life other than this one - of a life after death. We can visualize only a continuation of what we know. We have no real belief in a God.

~ Agatha Christie

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

~ Agatha Christie

Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept over him. Yes, he should have become acquainted with the classics. Long ago. Now, alas, it was too late....

~ Agatha Christie

The two words expressed volumes.

~ Agatha Christie

Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table

~ Agatha Christie

Who can tell? It may be that there must always be growth - and that if one does not grow kinder and wiser and greater, then the growth must be the other way, fostering the evil things. Or it may be that the life they all led was too shut in, too folded back upon itself - without breadth or vision. Or it may be that, like a disease of crops, it is contagious, that first one and then another is sickened.

~ Agatha Christie

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

~ Agatha Christie

I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.

~ Agatha Christie

… one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street.

~ Agatha Christie

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

~ Agatha Christie

The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.

~ Agatha Christie

Besides a burial service is rather lovely. Makes you feel uplifted, the grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.

~ Agatha Christie