Quotes from Agatha Christie

That's all right then. But a lot of people do tell lies.' I accepted this undeniable statement of fact in silence.

Oh, you still don't understand,' he said impatiently. 'I've fallen in love with her, and I'd like you to give me a divorce as soon as it can be arranged.' I suppose, with those words, that part of my life–my happy, successful confident life–ended. It was not as quick as that, of course–because I couldn't believe

You and I have a principle in common. We do not approve of murder.

All you need is a chair and a table and a typewriter and a bit of peace

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a Billingsgate fishwoman blush! I

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.

I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you. I have no truck with doctors and their medicines myself.

Oh, you may smile, Mr. Quin, but you cannot deny what I am saying." "I deny nothing. In what you see you are always right. And yet—" "Yet what?" Mr. Quin leaned forward. His dark melancholy eyes searched for those of Mr. Satterthwaite. "Have you learned so little of life?" he breathed.

these twitterers can tell one a lot if one just lets them—twitter!

Flog this man to death and throw him out in the rubbish heap!

In spite of its new gleaming paint, its alterations, it was in essence a tired old Victorian mansion. "I was wise to go," thought Mrs. Bantry. "Houses are like everything else. There comes a time when they've just had their day. This has had its day.

This is real life; and real life stops just where it chooses.

sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen.

he bounced a peach on the floor to show how hard it was—only it wasn't quite as hard as he thought and it squashed.

suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you—even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?" Poirot said steadily: "Yes, Mademoiselle. I believe it is the unforgivable offence—to kill.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide. A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

Funerals are absolutely fatal for a man of your age.

I don't know what the usual reactions are of a man who goes to propose marriage. In fiction his throat is dry and his collar feels too tight and he is in a pitiable state of nervousness.

Remember, remember The fifth of November Gunpowder treason and plot. We see no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.

The parsley sinking into the butter on a hot day,

I recalled the leering drunken old man, and the toil-worn face of the dead woman—and I shivered a little at the remorselessness of time….

Aunt Jane,' said Raymond, looking at her curiously, 'how do you do it? You have lived such a peaceful life and yet nothing seems to surprise you.' 'I always find one thing very like another in this world,' said Miss Marple.

But there are three people, madame, to whom a woman should speak the truth. To her Father Confessor, to her hairdresser and to her private detective – if she trusts him.

sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge