Quotes from Agatha Christie

They all fuss about me so," she said. "They rub it in that I'm an old woman." "And you don't feel like one." "No, I don't, Jane. In spite of all my aches and pains–and I've got plenty. Inside I go on feeling just like a chit like Gina. Perhaps everyone does. The glass shows them how old they are and they just don't believe it.

A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting.

It is well at any price to have peace in the home.

Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused.

I disdained to argue, and entrenched my curiosity behind a rampart of pretended indifference.

You must remember, too," he added, "that we deal with no ordinary criminal, but with the second greatest brain in the world." I forbore to pander to his conceit by asking the obvious question.

Don't be offended because I think you're young. Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

Was there such a thing as a world of romance and adventure somewhere? Where there women whose beauty intoxicated? Was there such a thing as love that devoured one like a flame?

The Captain's habit of letting off a revolver at real or imaginary cats was a sore trial to his neighbours.

It is curious to look back over life, over all the varying incidents and scenes - such a multitude of odds and ends. Out of them all what has mattered? What lies behind the selection that memory has made? What makes us choose the things that we have remembered? It is as though one went to a great trunk full of junk in an attic and plunged one's hands into it and said, 'I will have this - and this - and this.

I'm the kind of person who marries enthusiastically if they marry at all.

A murderer is seldom content with one crime.

She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth.

It's really very unpleasant. And not being able to say anything to answer back makes it rankle more, if you know what I mean.

The happiness of one man and woman is the greatest thing in all the world." His

I've no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.

We will sit here and drink coffee, and you shall all three listen to Hercule Poirot while he gives you a lecture on crime.

The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread.

So I suggest you cut the cackle and come to the horses.

It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us.

There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love but it cannot succeed by itself. To love means the words of the marriage service. For better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health. That is what you take on if you love and wish to marry.

Activity was always to Inspector Slack's taste. To rush off in a car, to silence rudely those people who were anxious to tell him things, to cut short conversations on the plea of urgent necessity. All this was the breath of life to Slack.

Funny, just this minute he didn't want much to get away from the island.

I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject.