Agatha Christie Quotes
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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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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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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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This, Hastings, will be my last case. It will be, too, my most interesting case - and my most interesting criminal.
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Blood tells - always remember that - blood tells.
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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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Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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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...
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‘I have often noticed that being a devoted wife saps the intellect,’ murmured Tommy.
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'Well, what are you doing? What have you done?' 'I am sitting in this char,' said Poirot. 'Thinking,' he added. 'Is that all?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'It is the important thing,' said Poirot.
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The crime is now logical and reasonable.
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Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.
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Freckles are so earnest and Scottish.
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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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‘You’re frightfully BBC in your language this afternoon, Albert,’ said Tuppance, with some exasperation. Albert looked slightly taken aback and reverted to a more natural form of speech. ‘I was listening to a very interesting talk on pond life last night,’ he explained.
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It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
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'You do well. Method and order, they are everything,' replied Poirot.
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‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it - none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.
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The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He’s got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!
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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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Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
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You have an excellent heart, my friend - but your grey cells are in a deplorable condition.
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One forgets how human murderers are.
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'It makes her rather alarming,' I said. 'Sincerity has that effect,' said Miss Marple.