Quotes from Agatha Christie

have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience.

?ncil okuyordu. 'Günahkârlar kendi eserleri olan bata?a batacaklar! Gizlenmek için örmü? olduklar? a?lar, kendi ayaklar?na tak?lacak. Tanr?, varl???n? kullar?na adaleti ile belli eder. Kötüler sonunda cezalar?n? kendi kendilerine bulacaklar. Günahkârlar?n yeri cehennemdir!

You know, Mrs. Dacres is quite my idea of a murderess—so hard and remorseless." "She's ever so hard—and she's got a wicked temper!

It is puzzling, I admit, but perhaps we shall find some explanation later. We come now to the evening, and the visit of the mysterious lady. I confess that that fairly baffles me,

In novels, I have noticed, anonymous letters of a foul and disgusting character are never shown, if possible, to women. It is implied that women must at all cost be shielded from the shock it might give their delicate nervous systems. I am sorry to say it never occurred to me not to show the letter to Joanna. I handed it to her at once.

Oh, yes, Madame. I have known of—shall we say A?—being removed by B solely in order to benefit C. Political murders often come under the same heading. Someone is considered to be harmful to civilization and is removed on that account. Such people forget that life and death are the affair of the good God.

He said at last, when Miss Gilchrist had twittered into silence:

She was standing by the door in a long blue dressing gown. She was looking petrified with terror.

My theory is the truth," said Poirot quietly. "And the truth is necessarily correct. In your theory you made a fundamental error. You permitted your imagination to lead you astray with midnight assignations and passionate love scenes. But in investigating crime we must take our stand upon the commonplace.

Miss Lyall, whose principal interests in life were the observation of people round her and the sound of her own voice, continued to talk.

Adalar?n en iyi yan? insan?n istedi?i zaman kaçamamas?nda...

One can never go back, one should not ever try to go back, the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

St. John's House was a new block of extremely expensive flats. There were sumptuous window boxes and uniformed porters of such magnificence that they looked like foreign generals.

I know, my dear, that isn't what you expected when I began this story. It wasn't what I expected either. But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again

With a deep sigh I proceeded to do things with my hair. I have nice hair. It is black—a real black, not dark brown—

The judge nodded gently. He said: 'Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman—probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.

Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age.

Huzur buna derler., gerçek huzur. Her ?eyin sonuna gelmi? olmak... Ya?amay? sürdürmek zorunda olmamak... Evet, gerçek huzur budur.

The desire, profound and pitiful, to be appreciated. If that is thwarted, if through an unpleasing personality a human being is unable to get the response it needs, it turns to other methods—it must be felt—it must count—and so to innumerable strange perversions. The habit of cruelty, like any other habit, can be cultivated, can take hold of one—

Only his eyes were the same as ever, shrewd and twinkling, and now — yes, undoubtedly — softened with emotion.

I make a good income and I only kill a reasonable number of my patients. How's that?

Really, Poirot! In the Middle Ages you would certainly have been burnt at the stake. How can you possibly know the things you do!

Oui... sans son regard fulgurant, sans ses yeux de lynx, Hercule Poirot serait peut-être mort écrasé, à l'heure qu'il est. Quelle effroyable calamité pour l'humanité toute entière ! Vous aussi, mon bon ami, vous auriez pu y rester ; mais cela n'aurait pas été une catastrophe nationale.

My ideas were completely upset. I could not see Ackroyd taking a hairdresser into his confidence,