Quotes from Agatha Christie

I'm not at all sure that I'm not a little jealous of her… we women are such cats, aren't we? Scratch, scratch, miauw, miauw, purr, purr…

Yes, it is as you say. You now behold a detective- a great detective, I may say- in the act of detecting!

Besides a burial service is rather lovely. Makes you feel uplifted, the grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.

Seni yang benar-benar seni, tentu saja berbeda, dan anak-anak muda itu memakai alasan seni untuk membenarkan sikap mereka yang malas-malasan

I attribute my success entirely to my habits of early rising, frugal living, and methodical habits.

The mirror crack'd from side to side: 'The doom has come upon me,' cried the Lady of Shalott.

Time goes a different pace in different places. Some places you come back to, and you feel that time has been busting along at a terrific rate and that all sorts of things will have happened - and changed.

When you look your most innocent is when you are up to something.' Revolving

To play the comedy successfully, you must put the heart into it.

But if I am right," thought Poirot, "and after all, it is natural to me to be right

She might have trusted you. But She has spent a great deal of her life listening, and those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness.

Does nothing frighten you, Anne Beddingfeld?" "Oh, yes," I said, with an assumption of coolness I was far from feeling. "Wasps, sarcastic women, very young men, cockroaches, and superior shop assistants.

You can't rightly estimate what a man will do when he's in drink.

Life, [...], whatever else it is, is not reasonable.

So many noble ideas flowing about. But then, you see, whom have you got to work out the ideas with? After all, only the same human beings you've always had. You can create a third world now, or so everyone thinks, but the third world will have the same people in it as the first world or the second world or whatever names you like to call things. And when you have the same human beings running things, they'll run them the same way.

Out flew the web and floated wide; The Mirror crack'd from side to side; 'The curse has come upon me,' cried The Lady of Shalott.

He did not know the methods of Hercule Poirot. I do not run to and fro, making journeys, and agitating myself. My work is done from within—here—' he tapped his forehead significantly.

A large fierce-looking dog whom Poirot suspected of having mange growled from his position on a moderately comfortable fourth chair.

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

Five minutes later, a young man walking rapidly in the opposite direction pulled up short and stopped in front of Sandra. He exclaimed blithely: "I say, what luck! I wondered if I'd ever see you again." His tone was so delighted that she blushed just a little. He stooped to the dog. "What a jolly little fellow. What's his name?" "MacTavish." "Oh, very Scotch.

Ah, yes, I remember reading about that—shocking affair. I don't think I actually ever came across the fellow, though, of course, I knew of him. Toby Armstrong. Nice fellow. Everybody liked him. He had a very distinguished career. Got the V.C.

Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.

Belki de kurtulmak ne demektir bilmiyorsun.' Vera, 'Kurtulmak m??' diye hayretle sordu. 'Henüz çok gençsin... Bu duyguyu henüz tan?m?yorsun. Ama s?rt?ndaki a??r yükü ta??maktan yoruldu?unda, kurtulmak isteyeceksin. Bunu sen de bir gün hissedeceksin mutlaka.