Quotes from Agatha Christie

In my experience, bossy women seldom get themselves murdered. I can't think why not. When you come to think of it, it's rather a pity.

But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way.

Women are like that nowadays, never happy unless they're dancing or gambling.

People who ought to die of shock and exposure don't die of shock and exposure, et cetera, et cetera. The human frame is tougher than one can imagine possible. Moreover, in my experience, a physical shock is more often fatal than a mental shock.

The mind is confused? Is it not so? Take time, mon ami. You are agitated; you are excited—it is but natural. Presently, when we are calmer, we will arrange the facts, neatly, each in his proper place. We will examine—and reject. Those of importance we will put on one side; those of no importance, pouf!"—he screwed up his cherub-like face, and puffed comically enough—"blow them

There was a moment's stupefied silence. Japp, who was the least surprised of any of us, was the first to speak.

I think each one of us in his secret heart fancies himself as Sherlock Holmes.

Marriage is an extraordinary thing—and I doubt if any outsider—even a child of the marriage—has the right to judge.

They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit.

Your idea of a woman is some one who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world.

It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.

I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.

I can look after her all right, sir," said Tommy, at exactly the same minute as Tuppence said, "I can take care of myself.

And anyway, a man has no business to let himself be made a fool of by a woman. It's his own look out if he does.

It is a pity that I am such a shocking housekeeper," said my wife, with a tinge of genuine regret in her voice. I was inclined to agree with her. My wife's name is Griselda—a highly suitable name for a parson's wife. But there the suitability ends. She is not in the least meek.

Don't pretend to come out of the ark, Len. You know very well that an attractive young woman with an elderly husband is a kind of gift from heaven to a young man.

One does see so much evil in a village," murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice.

The judge murmured with a reptilian smile:

Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him.

In the words of a best seller, 'You've nothing on me.

Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minded--face the truth, mademoiselle! Your friend died in the last resort, because she had not the courage to live. We may sympathize with her. We may pity her. But the fact remains--the act was hers--not another.

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.