Quotes from Agatha Christie

If one idea in particular seems attractive, and you feel you could do something with it, then you toss it around, play tricks with it, work it up, tone it down, and gradually get it into shape. Then, of course, you have to start writing it. That's not nearly such fun–it becomes hard work. Alternatively, you can tuck it carefully away, in storage, for perhaps using in a year or two years' time.

He tailed off into furious profanity.

His tone was reproachful and she flushed and bit her lip. Miss Johnson hastily turned the conversation to the dig

Her heart certainly failed to beat - but what caused it to fail is the question.

Mrs. Doyle!" exclaimed Ferguson with deep contempt. "She's the sort of woman who ought to be shot as an example.

If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

When one is unique, one knows it! And others share that opinion—

Poirot spoke again, still in the same calm, measured voice.

It is hard when you are twenty-four years of age, and your one ambition in life is to reduce your handicap at golf, to be forced to give time and attention to the problem of earning your living.

I think, Madame, that your strength is in your will—not in your arm.

Writing's not particularly enjoyable. It's hard work like everything else.

Her lips were set grimly together, and she carried a small suit-case. She looked excited and determined, and slightly on the defensive.

La mujer puede ser la ayuda del hombre y la inspiración de su vida, pero también puede ser su perdición. Puede arrastrarlo al nivel de la bestia.

And when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world.

Julius tapped his revolver.

A radical does not mean a man who lives on radishes," remarked Crook, with some impatience; "and a Conservative does not mean a man who preserves jam. Neither, I assure you, does a Socialist mean a man who desires a social evening with the chimney-sweep. A Socialist means a man who wants all the chimneys swept and all the chimney-sweeps paid for it.

La vida, como el tren, hija mía sigue adelante! ¡Y es una suerte que sea así-

Qué quiere decir la mayoría de la gente cuando dice eso? ¡Tan joven! Algo inocente, algo suplicante, algo indefenso. Pero la juventud no es eso. La juventud es cruda, la juventud es fuerte, la juventud es poderosa... Sí, ¡y cruel! Y alguna cosa más: la juventud es vulnerable».

Date troppo corda alla fantasia. La fantasia è un'ottima serva, ma una pessima padrona. La spiegazione più semplice quasi sempre si rivela esatta.

Never, never will the grey cells function unless you stimulate them.

And you do dance so nicely, Tommy dear." "Gently with the butter, Tuppence.

Meu amigo Hastings, aquele sobre quem lhe falei, costumava me dizer que eu era uma ostra humana. Mas ele era injusto. Sobre os fatos, eu não retenho nada comigo. Mas cada um os interpreta a seu modo.

Comprendo que ha tenido que hacer las veces de madre de su marido, cuando su mayor deseo hubiera sido ser simplemente su esposa.

Charles doesn't go out of a room—he 'makes an exit