Agatha Christie Quotes
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Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, and Mrs. Oliver always claimed the right to justify the particular intuition which turned out to be right!
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To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.
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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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The body - the cage - is everything of the most respectable - but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
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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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I’m used to that. It often seems to me that’s all detective work is - wiping out your false starts and beginning again.
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What beats me - it always does - is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.
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'Do you always travel first-class, Mr. Hardman?' 'Yes, sir. The firm pays my travelling expenses.' He winked.
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Men are foolish, are they not, Mademoiselle? To eat, to drink, to breathe the good air, it is a very pleasant thing, Mademoiselle. One is foolish to leave all that simply because one has no money - or because the heart aches. L´amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?
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Plymouth, Gwenda thought, as she moved forward obediently in the queu for Passports and Customs, was probably not the best of England.
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Yes, a private investigator like my Wilbraham Rice. The public have taken very strongly to Wilbraham Rice. He bites his nails and eats a lot of bananas. I don’t know why I made him bite his nails to start with - it’s really rather disgusting - but there it is. He started by biting his nails, and now he has to do it in every single book. So monotonous.
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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
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‘Truth of it is,’ said Commander Haydock, steering rather erratically round a one-way island and narrowly missing collision with a large van, ‘when the beggars are right, one remembers it, and when they’re wrong you forget it.’
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From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.
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Never mind. I knew - that was the great thing.
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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It was a very British and utterly unconvincing performance.
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I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us - listening. one of us
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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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'Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn’t recognize Latin when he hears it,' said Joanna
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'Well', said Miss Marple. 'Are you going to let her get away with it?' There was a pause, then Father brought down his fist with a crash on the table. 'No', he roared - 'No, by God I'm not!' Miss Marple nodded her head slowly and gravely. 'May God have mercy on her soul,' she said.
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The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
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How averse human beings were ever to admit ignorance!