Quotes from Agatha Christie

No woman respects a man when he's doing a thing thoroughly badly.

Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain.

It's no use resenting a thing that you've no power to stop.

The human and personal element can never be ignored.

A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.

The two words expressed volumes.

He did not know- he simply did not know. But he felt he ought to know.

But I don't doubt it will be essentially the same type of crime. The details may be different, but the essentials underlying them will be the same. It's odd, but a criminal gives himself away every time by that. Man is an unoriginal animal," said Hercule Poirot. "Women," said Mrs. Oliver, " are capable of infinite variation. I should never commit the same type of murder twice running." "Don't you ever write the same plot twice running?" asked Battle.

You should always pay attention to your instincts.

If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief.

We all have the little grey cells. And so few of us know how to use them.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle

Nothing is more dangerous than the well-meant efforts of the younger generation to assist you and show their sympathy.

Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you'd seen them.

It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.

She couldn't let the past go and she could never see the future as it really was, only as she imagined it to be.

Oh no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.

We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, 'What's the good of doing anything?' Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.

Looking back, I can see that one of the things my friends had to suffer out of affection for me was my optimism about weather,

The trouble with her is that either she thinks that at last she's got to that spot or place or that moment in her life where everything's like a fairy tale come true, that nothing can go wrong, that she'll never be unhappy again; or else she's down in the dumps, a woman whose life is ruined, who's never known love and happiness and who never will again.

I had just finished carving some boiled beef (remarkably tough by the way) and on resuming my seat I remarked, in a spirit most unbecoming to my cloth, that anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world at large a service.

A malformation of the grey cells may coincide quite easily with the face of a Madonna.