- Agatha Christie Quotes
I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.
You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.
I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.
Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple
I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.
In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?
how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.
The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.
You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!
Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.
all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.
... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement
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.
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.
It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.
Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.
Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.