Agatha Christie

Quotes

• “Life is like a train Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so." "Why?" "Because the train gets t...”
• “On the seat opposite him was an American tourist. The pattern of his clothes, of his overcoat, the grip he carried, down...”
• “Until about 1957, Agatha Christie's plots were ingeniously composed of interlocking segments. This was the area in which...”
• “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood. I had a very happy childhood. I ...”
• “And then, startling in its crisp transatlantic tones, a voice said: "Stick 'em up." They swerved around. Schwartz, dress...”
• “I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what I have done is justified or not justified. No - I do not kno...”
• “The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided....”
• “I must have a talk with you, David, and learn all the new ideas. As far as I can see, one must hate everybody but at the...”
• “I always feel that the young doctors are only too anxious to experiment. After they've whipped out all our teeth, and ad...”
• “I have, perhaps, too professional a point of view where deaths are concerned. They are divided, in my mind, into two cla...”
• “Looking back, it seems to me extraordinary that we should have contemplated having both a nurse and a servant, but they ...”
• “Yes, a private investigator like my Wilbraham Rice. The public have taken very strongly to Wilbraham Rice. He bites his ...”
• “I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of ...”
• “You have been to the Riviera before, Georges?" said Poirot to his valet the following morning. George was an intensely E...”
• “She broke off, unable to find words to frame her struggling thoughts. What life would be with Hori, she did not know. In...”
• “It is well-known that Agatha Christie was not so much a novelist as the inventor of a novelty, a peculiarly intricate an...”
• “The tear rose in Miss Marple's eyes. Succeeding pity, there came anger - anger against a heartless killer. And then, dis...”
• “And Mr. Burnaby said acutely: "Well, it doesn't seem to have done her much good, poor lass." But after a while they stop...”
• “To be part of something one doesn't in the least understand is, I think, one of the most intriguing things about life. I...”
• “I have given them life instead of death, freedom instead of the cords of superstition, beauty and truth instead of corru...”
• “I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-hea...”
• “Well", said Miss Marple. "Are you going to let her get away with it?" There was a pause, then Father brought down his fi...”
• “There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. Ther...”
• “Yes. I like to see people get angry. I like it very much. But here in England they do not get angry like they do in Spai...”
• “God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be person...”
• “You're frightfully BBC in your language this afternoon, Albert,' said Tuppance, with some exasperation. Albert looked sl...”
• “It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they wo...”
• “Is it coding - or code breaking? Is it like Deborah's job? Do be careful, Tommy, people go queer doing that and can't sl...”
• “Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool ...”
• “On vacations, I will take a giant stack of Agatha Christie novels and read one every day. I never remember who this kill...”
• “Believe me, nurse, the difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop. At least that's...”
• “What any woman saw in some particular man was beyond the comprehension of the average intelligent male. It just was so. ...”
• “Ah!" Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it. "Beware! Peril to the detective who says: '...”
• “Aha? You have been very clever, madame." "No, I haven't really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small ca...”
• “Mademoiselle," I said, "it is sometimes difficult for a dog to find a scent, but once he has found it, nothing on earth ...”
• “I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes..." With his arms round h...”
• “This is M. Hercule Poirot," I said. Megan Barnard gave him a quick, appraising glance. "I've heard of you," she said. "Y...”
• “Oh, dear, it's quite true what Dr. Reilly said. How does one stop writing? If I could find a really good telling phrase....”
• “Truth of it is,' said Commander Haydock, steering rather erratically round a one-way island and narrowly missing collisi...”
• “Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, a...”
• “It shows you, Madame, the dangers of conversation. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to ta...”
• “It merely confirmed in him his long-held belief that you should never believe anything anyone said without first checkin...”
• “Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phr...”
• “Well, of course, Gwenda dear, you can always do that when you've exhausted every other line of approach, but I always th...”
• “The quality of agreeableness Is not much stressed nowadays. People tend to ask if a man is clever, industrious, if he co...”
• “Perhaps her greatest strength was that she never overstepped the limits of her talent. She knew precisely what she could...”
• “I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, ...”
• “I think perhaps it wasn't a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it's nice and hot by the fi...”
• “Nothing", I said sadly. "They are two delightful women!" "And neither of them is for you?" finished Poirot. "Never mind....”
• “Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing - 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?" His face sc...”