Agatha Christie Quotes
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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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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...
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It was a very British and utterly unconvincing performance.
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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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Perhaps a little of Trollope, but not to drown in him.
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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 felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us - listening. one of us
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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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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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Now there is no murder without a motive.
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The crime is now logical and reasonable.
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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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'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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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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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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'I saw a particular personage and I threatened him - yes, Mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, threatened him.' 'With the police?' 'No,' said Poirot drily, 'With the Press - a much more deadly weapon.'
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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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Plymouth, Gwenda thought, as she moved forward obediently in the queu for Passports and Customs, was probably not the best of England.
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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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There is always something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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Tout de même, it is not necessary that he should be killed on the Orient Express. There are other places.
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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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It’s so messy bleeding like a pig.