- Agatha Christie Quotes

Ladies tell their nurses things in a sudden burst of confidence, and then, afterwards, they feel uncomfortable about it and wish they hadn't! It's only human nature.

Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way." - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.

I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.

You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.

It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.

Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once.

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death...

It is romantic, yes, ’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun’.

A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human, ' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.

It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.

The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind.

Wwhat the hell? Weve all got to die sometime!

Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering...

People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

Don’t go, ” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.

Where there is murder, anything can happen.

People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not.

Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?

A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men.

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?"-Mike RogersEndless Night by Agatha Christie

There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!

Love can be a very frightening thing.”“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

I loved her- I always loved her- no matter what she was-I wanted her safe- not shut up- a prisoner for life, eating her heart out. And we did keep her safe- for many years" Phillip Stark

All life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.

I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.

... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.

...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.

I help those who can help themselves.

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

That is the word of reality - need.

To cry at will is not an easy accomplishment.

Sloppy crying had never helped anyone yet.

For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

The innocent must not suffer.