Agatha Christie Quotes
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Perhaps a little of Trollope, but not to drown in him.
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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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I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us - listening. one of us
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But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.
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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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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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It’s so messy bleeding like a pig.
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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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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Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.
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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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'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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'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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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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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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Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.
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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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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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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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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 would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons.
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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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'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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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.