Agatha Christie Quotes
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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.
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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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But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.
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I can imagine anything! That's the trouble with me. I can imagine things now - this minute. I could even make them sound all right, but of course none of them would be true.
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Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!
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He had not remembered her name, but he had seen her dance - had been carried away and fascinated by the supreme art that can make you forget art.
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Two is enough for a secret.
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There is no such thing as muddle - obscurity, yes - but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain.
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'Nothing', I said sadly. 'They are two delightful women!' 'And neither of them is for you?' finished Poirot. 'Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows?'
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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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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I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.
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Never mind. I knew - that was the great thing.
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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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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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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How convenient if you could ring up Harrods and say ‘Please send along two good murderers, will you?’
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She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What can one do?' 'You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'
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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!
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Children and one’s social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for 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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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...'
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Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.