Agatha Christie Quotes
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'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
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These little things are very significant.
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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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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
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Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend.
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'The English are very stupid,' said Poirot. 'They think that they can deceive anyone but that no one can deceive them.'
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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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Oh, dear, it's quite true what Dr. Reilly said. How does one stop writing? If I could find a really good telling phrase... Like the one M. Poirot used. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate... Something like that.
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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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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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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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Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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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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'It’s so dreadfully easy - killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn’t matter… That it’s only you that matters! It’s dangerous - that.'
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It’s so messy bleeding like a pig.
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Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phrase - that is to say the phrase that falls soothingly on the ear and is quite empty of meaning.
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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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Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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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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'Yes. I like to see people get angry. I like it very much. But here in England they do not get angry like they do in Spain. In Spain they take out their knives and they curse and shout. In England they do nothing, just get very red in the face and shut up their mouths tight.'
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'This affair must all be unravelled from within.' He tapped his forehead. 'These little grey cells. It is ‘up to them’ - as you say over here.'
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It would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons.