Agatha Christie Quotes
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'I like to see an angry Englishman,' said Poirot. 'They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.'
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'Darling,' she drawled, 'won’t that be rather tiresome? If any misfortunes happen to my friends I always drop them at once! It sounds heartless, but it saves such a lot of trouble later!'
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Fear is incomplete knowledge.
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They are so busy knocking that they do not notice that the door is open!
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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Quite absurd, because Caleb has absolutely no taste for fornication. He never has had. So lucky, being a clergyman.
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Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses.
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Pilar sat squeezed up against the window and thought how very odd the English smelt.
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Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
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But when investing money, keep, I beg of you, Hastings, strictly to the conservative.
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He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.
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Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and, lo, in a minute they are become discolored carnelians. A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.
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Proof must be solid break walls of facts.
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It’s not impossible my dear. It’s just a very remarkable coincidence - and remarkable coincidences do happen.
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It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.
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I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.
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'Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing - 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?' His face screwed itself up comically. 'You may get more than you bargain for.'
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'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'
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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go.
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The tear rose in Miss Marple's eyes. Succeeding pity, there came anger - anger against a heartless killer. And then, displacing both these emotions, there came a surge of triumph - the triumph some specialist might feel who has successfully reconstructed an extinct animal from a fragment of jawbone and a couple of teeth.
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The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
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John, forgive me... for what I can't help doing.
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'I agree with you. It is here a family affair. It is a poison that works in the blood - it is intimate - it is deep-seated. There is here, I think, hate and knowledge…'
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'Yes, Mr. Lee.' Superintendent Sugden did not wast time on explanations. 'What’s all this?'