Agatha Christie Quotes
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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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It would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons.
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Now there is no murder without a motive.
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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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‘I have often noticed that being a devoted wife saps the intellect,’ murmured Tommy.
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Freckles are so earnest and Scottish.
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Blood tells - always remember that - blood tells.
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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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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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Tout de même, it is not necessary that he should be killed on the Orient Express. There are other places.
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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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Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.
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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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The crime is now logical and reasonable.
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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 do well. Method and order, they are everything,' replied Poirot.
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It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
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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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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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‘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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One forgets how human murderers are.
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It all came together then, you see - all the various isolated bits - and made a coherent pattern.
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You have an excellent heart, my friend - but your grey cells are in a deplorable condition.