Agatha Christie Quotes
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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Is it coding - or code breaking? Is it like Deborah’s job? Do be careful, Tommy, people go queer doing that and can’t sleep and walk about all night groaning and repeating 978345286 or something like that and finally have nervous breakdowns and go into homes.
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Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
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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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Miss Marple twinkled at me.
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It would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons.
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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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'Do you always travel first-class, Mr. Hardman?' 'Yes, sir. The firm pays my travelling expenses.' He winked.
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It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
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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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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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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.
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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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Freckles are so earnest and Scottish.
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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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I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them.
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Perhaps a little of Trollope, but not to drown in him.
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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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Two is enough for a secret.
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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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Children and one’s social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for them.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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It’s so messy bleeding like a pig.