Quotes from Agatha Christie

There are certain humiliating moments in the lives of the greatest of men. It has been said that no man is a hero to his valet. To that may be added that few men are heroes to themselves at the moment of visiting their dentist.

Ser Justase, nekad je dovoljno da date ?oveku dovoljno konopca i pustite ga da se sam obesi.

And for five long hours the little man sat motionless, blinking his eyelids like a cat, his green eyes flickering and becoming steadily greener and greener.

Well, medicine was mostly faith-healing when it came to it. And he had a good manner - he could inspire hope and belief.

And the Minister strode rapidly away.

I have always been rather good at what is called, I believe, creating an atmosphere.

It is not for me to run here and there, doing amateurishly the things that for a small sum someone else can do with professional skill.

Come on, Charles, let's have it." "You mayn't like it," I said. "I met Sophia Leonides out in Cairo. I fell in love with her. I'm going to marry her. I met her tonight. She dined with me." "Dined with you? In London? I wonder just how she managed to do that? The family were asked - oh, quite politely, to stay put." "Quite so. She shinned down a pipe from the bathroom window." The Old Man's lips twitched for a moment into a smile. "She seems," he said, "to be a young lady of some resource.

Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.

One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.

Oh, quite so. Count them both in as possibles. She for jealousy. He for his career. Divorce would have dished that. Not that divorce means as much as it used to, but in his case it would have meant the antagonism of the Kidderminster clan.

The murderer is with us—on the train now….

Everybody knows everybody else's secrets and that they enter into a kind of conspiracy to pretend that they don't.

Ele disse: 'A vida não pode realmente ser resolvida por máximas admiráveis tiradas da literatura moderna. Lembre-se de que a natureza tem os dentes e as garras rubros.

Ungdomen är hård, ungdomen är stark, ungdomen är mäktig – ja, och grym! Och en sak till – ungdomen är sårbar.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering." -Caroline to Ursual.

His manner, as always, was incurious - almost lazy. He asked the question, it seemed, more from politeness than because he had any desire for the information. It was a manner particularly soothing to Mary Aldin. She wanted badly to talk to someone - but she much preferred to talk to someone who was not too much interested.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope.

It's really what people call intuition and make such a fuss about. Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. But a grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before. You catch my meaning, Vicar?

It is about ten or fifteen years ago now, and happily it is all over and done with, and everyone has forgotten about it. People's memories are very short—a lucky thing, I always think.

The 16th of July fell on a Monday.

You must be more careful Mademoiselle. He is out of date you comprehend. He just returned from those great clear open spaces, etc., and he has yet to learn the language of nowadays.

Lebih mudah membenci seseorang yang Anda cintai daripada tidak mengacuhkan orang yang Anda cintai.

And let me tell you something, mademoiselle – in the course of my experience I have known five cases of wives murdered by devoted husbands, and twenty-two of husbands murdered by devoted wives. Les femmes, they obviously keep up appearances better.