Quotes from Agatha Christie

It had to come about exactly the way things happened in books.

You do not like anyone less because they have tuberculosis or some other fatal disease.

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Look here, Iris, you're in a tight place. But apart from anything else, there's such a thing as TRUTH. You can't play safe and take care of your own skin when it's a question of justice.

People with nothing better to do and a bit weak in the top storey sit down and write 'em. They don't mean any harm! Just a kind of excitement.

Gentlemen,' she said with her old-maid's way of referring to the opposite sex as though it were a species of wild animal, 'are frequently not as level-headed as they seem.

One had to humour him a little, of course. But then I always find one has to do that with men.

Wife murder is perfectly possible—almost natural, let's say!

The intelligent people on whose intelligence she could rely were all far too busy. Not only had they all got jobs of varying importance, their leisure hours were usually apportioned long beforehand. The unintelligent who had time on their hands were simply, Miss Marple decided, no good.

I enjoyed writing the Miss Marple stories very much, conceived a great affection for my fluffy old lady, and hoped that she might be a success. She was. After the first six stories had appeared, six more were requested, Miss Marple had definitely come to stay.

You should never believe anything anyone said without first checking it. Suspect everybody, had been for many years, if not his whole life, one of his first axioms.

I'm a man. You're a woman." "Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

Put that in your moustache and smoke it.

A charming creature and a lady—but then that was the kind of woman who invariably did get left, in Mr. Treves' experience.

You comprehend - I began to look at the case the right way up. Expense no object? Naturally not - to you. Reckless of human life - that, too, since for a long time you have been virtually a dictator and to a dictator his own life becomes unduly important and those of others unimportant.

As you are on the scene, it probably would be murder!" For a moment Poirot smiled.

But, my friend, I am not an Anglo-Saxon. Why should I play the hypocrite?

Biarkan keadilan mengalir bagaikan air, dan kebenaran mengalir bagaikan arus yang kekal.

More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The

I've often noticed that once coincidences start happening they go on happening in the most extraordinary way. I dare say it's some natural law that we haven't found out.

I wish you would always have Miss Marple and not Poirot," and the other "I wish you would have Poirot and not Miss Marple." I myself incline to her side. I think, that she is at her best in the solving of short problems; they suit her more intimate style. Poirot, on the other hand, insists on a full-length book to display his talents.

To have known, at close quarters, what absolute evil means, is to be armoured against what life can do to you.

Their country-place, Styles Court, had been purchased by Mr. Cavendish early in their married life. He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy, so much so that, on dying, he left the place to her for her lifetime, as well as the larger part of his income; an arrangement that was distinctly unfair to his two sons.

I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been…