Quotes from Agatha Christie

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out. Miss Marple

There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet.

Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.

I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.

I've never met a murderer who wasn't vain... It's their vanity that leads to their undoing, nine times out of ten. They may be frightened of being caught, but they can't help strutting and boasting and usually they're sure they've been far too clever to be caught.

Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.

Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.

To say a man does mad things because he is mad is merely unintelligent and stupid. A madman is as logical and reasoned in his action as a sane man--given his peculiar biased point of view. For example, if a man insists on going out and squatting about in nothing but a loin cloth his conduct seems eccentric in the extreme. But once you know that the man himself is firmly convinced that he is Mahatma Gandhi, then his conduct becomes perfectly reasonable and logical.

I have always disapproved of murder.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend," observed Poirot philosophically. "You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

Mademoiselle, I speak as a friend. Bury your dead! ... Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.' 'I'm sure that would suit dear Linnet admirably.' Poirot made a gesture. 'I am not thinking of her at this moment! I am thinking of you. You have suffered - yes - but what you are doing now will only prolong the suffering.

always bear in mind that the person who speaks may be lying

What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out.

Everything is simple, if you arrange the facts methodically

Love can be a very frightening thing." "That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

What do most people mean when they say that? So young. Something innocent, something appealing, something helpless. But youth is not that! Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful—yes, and cruel! And one thing more—youth is vulnerable.

You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you.

A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.

Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -" "I am desolated!" "That's a good boy!

And that very same evening - that very same evening - Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.

Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.

Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!

Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!