Quotes from Agatha Christie

move, hoping to save itself by its immobility.

Remorse," she said, with great gusto. "Remorse?

Sommige van de grootste misdadigers die ik heb gekend hadden engelengezichten,' sprak Poirot opgewekt. 'Een misvorming van de grijze cellen kan heel goed samengaan met het gezicht van een madonna.

Yes, so it appears. But you can look at the thing from another angle. Fräulein Greta was his niece and a very lovely girl, but the War has shown us time and again that brother can turn against sister, or father against son and so on, and the loveliest and gentlest of young girls did some of the most amazing things.

It's been going on a long time. I can tell you it's a difficult thing to go on really liking a man who can do everything just a little bit better than you can. Burnaby was a narrow-minded, small-natured man. He let it get on his nerves.

Once people have got a moty car, blessed if they can stay still anywheres

Un buen consejo siempre será ignorado, pero eso no es motivo para no darlo.

Well, I don't agree with you," said Griselda. "You know how little we can afford to pay a servant. If once we got her smartened up at all, she'd leave. Naturally. And get higher wages. But as long as Mary can't cook and has those awful manners—well, we're safe, nobody else would have her.

Encore un peu, Madame.

We Russians, on the contrary, practise prodigality,' she said.

Sarah said frowning: "I don't understand doctor Gerard. He seems to think - " "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," quoted Poirot. "You see, I know your Shakespeare.

Masa muda adalah masa yang rawan. Masa muda itu kejam, sekaligus penuh keyakinan. Penuh harapan, juga penuh persyaratan.

Rather unwillingly, Colonel Luscombe stepped across the threshold and had the door shut firmly behind him.

He had to deal with the physical world and not the psychic. It was his job to track down the murderer. And to do that he required no guidance from the spirit world.

But the newspapers, they are so inaccurate, I never go by what they say.

Being unspoiled and natural. You learn how to do it, and then you have to go on being it all the time. Just think of the hell of it—never to be able to chuck something, and say, 'Oh, for the Lord's sake stop bothering me.

Jangan pikirkan lagi masa lalu! Berpalinglah pada masa yang akan datang! Apa yang telah terjadi, sudahlah. Kepahitan tidak akan mengubahnya." - Hercule Poirot, Death on the Nile, page 93

Only a rose-shaded lamp shed its glow on the figure in the armchair.

If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison someone by mistake, you wouldn't joke about it." -- Cynthia Murdoch

Yes. If there is a murderer in the woodpile—and I think there is, Hastings. Yes, I think there is….

like a good detective story,' he said. 'But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that—years before sometimes—with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.

This river... it's a crossing over Rubicon.

Not so. Voyons! One fact leads to another—so we continue. Does the next fit in with that? A merveille! Good! We can proceed. This next little fact —no! Ah, that is curious! There is something missing—a link in the chain that is not there. We examine. We search. And that little curious fact, that possibly paltry little detail that will not tally, we put it here!" He made an extravagant gesture with his hand. "It is significant! It is tremendous!

He needs your prayers.' 'Is he then an unhappy man?' Poirot said: 'So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.' The nun said softly: 'Ah, a rich man …' Hercule Poirot said nothing – for he knew there was nothing to say …