Quotes from Agatha Christie

The woman's at a certain time of life—craving for sensation, unbalanced, unreliable—might say anything. They do, you know!

The true work, it is done from within. The little grey cells—remember always the little grey cells, mon ami." -- Hercule Poirot

I admit that the second murder in the book often cheers things up.

Miss Marple, the guest,

Yes, poor Sir Bartholomew's death has been rather a godsend to me. There's just an off chance, you see, that I might have murdered him. I've rather played up to that.

Kad bi svinje poletele, sasvim je neverovatno da bi zbog toga postale ptice.

his objection to golf as a game "shapeless and haphazard," whose only redeeming feature was the tee boxes!

You can't really spare anyone anything,' she said. 'Things always have to be faced sooner or later. And therefore it had better be sooner.

I'd rather a man felt that he was enjoying himself looking after me than that he should feel I was a duty to be attended to

Progress by elimination," said Sir Charles.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily poisoned their husbands.

She was obviously wearing her best clothes and had the self-conscious, wooden smile on her face that so often disfigures the expression in posed photography, and makes a snapshot preferable.

I don't think. I know.

No. We've never met any actresses–or actors, for the matter of that–until Sir Charles came to live here. And that," added Mrs. Babbington, "was a great excitement. I don't think Sir Charles knows what a wonderful thing it was to us. Quite a breath of romance in our lives.

Father looked thoughtfully at the two women facing him. Mother and daughter. There was, he noted, a strong superficial likeness between them. He could understand how for one moment in the fog he had taken Elvira Blake for Bess Sedgwick.

So we are back at our last rather sketchy idea—fear. By the death of Stephen Babbington, someone gains security.

When you have two crimes precisely similar in design and execution, you find the same brain behind them both." -- Hercule Poirot

I have been wondering—whether it might perhaps be all much simpler than we suppose. Murders so often are quite simple—with an obvious rather sordid motive….

After a moment's hesitation Doris Sims agreed. She was curious and she liked good food.

A man tells to his mistress what he does not always tell to his wife.

He was impressed, as everyone was impressed, by Henry's personality. Though such a large and portly man he had appeared, as it were, like some vast travesty of Ariel who could materialize and vanish at will.

I can always think of things," said Mrs. Oliver happily. "What is so tiring is writing them down. I always think I've finished, and then when I count up I find I've only written thirty thousand words instead of sixty thousand, and so then I have to throw in another murder and get the heroine kidnapped again. It's all very boring.

I thought the Chief Constable was going to have apoplexy.