Agatha Christie Quotes
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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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Miss Marple twinkled at me.
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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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It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
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Freckles are so earnest and Scottish.
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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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It would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons.
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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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‘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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'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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'Do you always travel first-class, Mr. Hardman?' 'Yes, sir. The firm pays my travelling expenses.' He winked.
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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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The body - the cage - is everything of the most respectable - but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
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And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.
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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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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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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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Perhaps a little of Trollope, but not to drown in him.
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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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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...