Quotes from Agatha Christie

There are many things not called poison which can kill a man,

Mon ami ,' said Poirot with dignity, 'when I commit a murder it will not be with the arrow poison of the South American Indians.

Human nature is full of inconsistencies

He was at the stage of a meal when one becomes philosophic.

No," said Miss Marple. "You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.

He's not dead. But I have a feeling he's bored. That's worse.

People will quite often do anything for money. - Jane Marple

You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence.

Let us think only of the good days that are to come.

Of course. I understand." "One of your brilliant mentality could not fail to do so, Hastings.

There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.

Poison has a certain appeal … It has not the crudeness of the revolver bullet or the blunt weapon.

My sister continued: 'What did she die of? Heart failure?' 'Didn't the milkman tell you that?' I inquired sarcastically. Sarcasm is wasted on Caroline. She takes it seriously and answers accordingly. 'He didn't know,' she explained.

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.

I think a woman smothered in cheap scent is one of the greatest abominations known to mankind - Lord Mayfield

Les femmes," generalized Poirot. "They are marvellous! They invent haphazard—and by miracle they are right. Not that it is that, really. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.

Because this is just what a nightmare is. Walking about among people you know, looking in their faces- and suddenly the faces change- and it's not someone you know any longer- it's a stranger- a cruel stranger.

One has to dare if one wants to get anywhere,' said Mrs. Bantry.

How strange that a girl could trouble your inmost soul so long as she kept her mouth shut, and that the moment she spoke the glamour could vanish as though it had never been.

Sometimes I think there are people who only read books in the hope of finding mistakes in them.

He felt lost without his hatred–lost and afraid. About Mickey Argyle