Agatha Christie Quotes
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'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.
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Last time I had my hands on you, you felt like a bird - struggling to escape. You'll never escape now...
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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.
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Even the sensible and the competent have been given tongues by le bon Dieu - and they do not always employ their tongues wisely.
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Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.
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Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.
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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.
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Yes, he is intelligent. But we must be more intelligent. We must be so intelligent that he does not suspect us of being intelligent at all.
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Never mind. I knew - that was the great thing.
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'That’s all very well - they’re not educated, poor creatures.' 'No, and a good thing too. Education has devitalised the white races. Look at America - goes in for an orgy of culture. Simply disgusting.'
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'Here are my roses. Like ’em?' 'They’re beautiful,' said Laura politely. 'On the whole,' said Mr. Baldock, 'I prefer them to human beings. They don’t last as long for one thing.'
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This, Hastings, will be my last case. It will be, too, my most interesting case - and my most interesting criminal.
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Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.
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He could have shot her from behind a hedge in the good old Irish fashion and probably got away with it.
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I have given them life instead of death, freedom instead of the cords of superstition, beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation. The old bad days are over for them, the Light of the Aton has risen, and they can dwell in peace and harmony freed from the shadow of fear and oppression.
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Well, of course, Gwenda dear, you can always do that when you’ve exhausted every other line of approach, but I always think myself it’s better to examine the simplest and most commonplace explanations first.
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That was the worst of Dr Reilly. You never knew whether he was joking or not. He always said things in the same slow melancholy way - but half the time there was a twinkle underneath it.
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I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not - how shall I express it? - a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain - I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.
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I have, perhaps, too professional a point of view where deaths are concerned. They are divided, in my mind, into two classes - deaths which are my affair and deaths which are not my affair - and though the latter class is infinitely more numerous - nevertheless whenever I come in contact with death I am like the dog who lifts his head and sniffs the scent.
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'Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn’t recognize Latin when he hears it,' said Joanna
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From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.
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An Englishman thinks first of his work - his job, he calls it - and then of his sport, and last - a good way last - of his wife.