Agatha Christie Quotes
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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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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 crime is now logical and reasonable.
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Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.
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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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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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'You do well. Method and order, they are everything,' replied Poirot.
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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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Now there is no murder without a motive.
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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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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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‘I have often noticed that being a devoted wife saps the intellect,’ murmured Tommy.
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Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.
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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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'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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You have an excellent heart, my friend - but your grey cells are in a deplorable condition.
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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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One forgets how human murderers are.
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It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
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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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It all came together then, you see - all the various isolated bits - and made a coherent pattern.