Agatha Christie Quotes
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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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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These little things are very significant.
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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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Oh, dear, it's quite true what Dr. Reilly said. How does one stop writing? If I could find a really good telling phrase... Like the one M. Poirot used. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate... Something like that.
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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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Blood tells - always remember that - blood tells.
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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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'You do well. Method and order, they are everything,' replied Poirot.
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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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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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Now there is no murder without a motive.
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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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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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Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.
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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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You have an excellent heart, my friend - but your grey cells are in a deplorable condition.
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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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It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
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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.