- Agatha Christie Quotes

When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

Poirot, " I said. "I have been thinking.""An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?--Poirot

The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

One always has hope for human nature

We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

Death was for-the other people.

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei.

In fact there is only your own instinct?Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong-

No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.

You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one, ' said Tommy.'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands, ' said Tuppance.'You have the wrong kind of friends, ' said Tommy.

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -""I am desolated!""That's a good boy!

You would hate people if you were like me… If you weren’t wanted.

How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be.

Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.

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.

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

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.

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

The two words expressed volumes.

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

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

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