Quotes from Agatha Christie

Because people like living, don't they? So do flies. Even if you're old and in pain and can just crawl out in the sun. Julian says those people like living even more than young strong people do. It's harder, he says, for them to die, the struggle's greater. I like living myself—not just being happy and enjoying myself and having a good time. I mean living—waking up and feeling, all over me, that I'm there—ticking over.

Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

Fey?" Mrs. Allerton put her head on one side as she considered her reply. "Well, it's a Scottish word, really. It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know—it's too good to be true.

I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.

Poirot. "You find out

It was five o'clock on a winter's morning in Syria.

Blood tells—always remember that—blood tells." -- Hercule Poirot

Si se estudia un problema con orden y método, no hay dificultad alguna en resolverlo (Hércules Poirot)

It is always wise to suspect everybody until you can prove logically, and to your own satisfaction, that they are innocent." -- Hercule Poirot

It's the muddle-headed loyalty of friends and relations that makes a detective's life so difficult.

But you didn't like him?" "Shall we put it that I don't care very much for Americans, sir." "Have you ever been in America?" "No, sir.

To deceive deliberately—that is one thing. But to be so sure of your facts, of your ideas and of their essential truth that the details do not matter—that, my friend, is a special characteristic of particularly honest persons.

to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.

But then, how do you know?' 'Because I am Hercule Poirot! I do not need to be told.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself.

My boy, I know what I'm talking about. Mind you, I'm not saying marriage doesn't come hard on a fellow at first. It does. Fellow says to himself, damn it all, he says, I can't call my soul my own! But he gets broken in. It's all discipline." Luke

That's queer," I ejaculated suddenly beneath my breath.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realize it.

woman could act her part with that icy unconcern. Poirot did not make his appearance the following morning,

And catch a fox And put him in a box And never let him go.

I have made it a habit," said Miss Marple. "To be careful?" "I should not put it exactly like that, but I have made a point of being always ready to disbelieve as well as believe anything that is told to me.

Anne's awfully sensitive,' said Rhoda. 'And she's bad about—well, facing things. If anything's upset her, she'd just rather not talk about it,

I am in my own line a celebrated person—I may say a most celebrated person. My gifts, in fact, are unequalled!

Aprendí que no se puede dar marcha atrás, que la esencia de la vida es ir hacia adelante. La vida, en realidad, es una calle de sentido único.