- Agatha Christie Quotes

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

... obsessions are always dangerous.

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

One must make one's own mistakes

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

I am all that there is of the most real.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

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

You should employ your little grey cells.

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

The rottenness comes from within.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

Hate doesn't last. Love does.

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.