Quotes from Agatha Christie

Everything costs so much—clothes and one's face—and just silly things like cinemas and cocktails—and even gramophone records!' Roddy

The darkest day, lived till tomorrow, will have passed away?

Ah, yes,' said Poirot. He was reflecting, and not for the first time, that seen from the back, shorts were becoming to very few of the female sex. He shut his eyes in pain.

Do you like sitting here looking out to the sea?" - Vera E. Claythorne

Well," said Adam, as Poirot went out. "First girls' knees, and now draughtsmanship! What next, I wonder!

But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know? I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions. He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know. We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves.

you've no idea of the agony of having your characters taken and made to say things that they never would have said, and do things that they never would have done. And if you protest, all they say is that it's 'good theatre.

Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have come to see gains that cannot be reckoned in terms of wealth, and losses that are more damaging than loss of a crop... I look at the River and I see the lifeblood of Egypt that has existed before we lived and that will exist after we die... Life and death, Renisenb, are not of such great account.

They are never really dead, these super criminals

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute. That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.

Excuse me, Monsieur Poirot. If you'd like to ask any questions, I'm sure the doctor wouldn't mind. Of course not. Of course not. Great admirer of yours, Monsieur Poirot. Little gray cells -- order and method. I know all about it.

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

The police, they're seemingly so frank, and they tell you nothing.

It can happen that if anyone is talking to a person they know cannot see well, they are careless. They permit themselves an expression of face that on other occasions they would not allow.

A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty," remarked Hercule Poirot.

It is the sex angle that sells stories, that makes news. give people scandal allied to sex and it appeals far more than any mere political chicanery or fraud. (Hercule Poirot)

More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.

A dog is a great promoter of friendly intercourse.

Men and women don't react in the same way. What it comes down to is this. Men are the more sensitive sex. Women are tough. Men can't take murder in their stride. Women apparently can. The fact is, if a man's committed a murder for a woman, it probably enhances his value in her eyes. A man feels differently.

I pass over the spectacle of Poirot on a camel. He started by groans and lamentations and ended by shrieks, gesticulations and invocations to the Virgin Mary and every Saint in the calendar. In the end, he descended ignominiously and finished the journey on a diminutive donkey.

you prefer to continue knitting, that is your decision. If you prefer to serve the cause of justice, I hope that you may at least find it interesting. Let justice roll down like waters. And righteousness like an everlasting stream. Amos.

People don't do things without a reason.

Human nature, dear, is very much the same everywhere. It is more difficult to observe it closely in a city, that is all.

Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there.