Quotes from Agatha Christie

Behind the whimsicality there was something earnest in his appeal. He had come to think very highly of the mental powers of this frail old-fashioned maiden lady. He looked across at her with something very like hope in his eyes.

Such people go through life in great danger.

Mr. Lester, he takee those,' answered the other, who was a Chinaman. 'He say, puttee them allee in safee place—where pleeceman no lookee.

Tampoco creo, por mi parte, que esté yo dispuesto a hacer tal cosa. Tuppence y yo no hemos llegado todavía a ese extremo. Los asuntos los emprendemos y los acabamos juntos. Al decir aquello tenía fija en la mente una frase pronunciada hacia el final de la Primera Guerra Mundial: «Una aventura común». Así había sido su vida con Tuppence y así sería siempre… «Una aventura común…»

It is a question of sudden and mysterious death. If I am to believe that it is a martyred angel who has been killed it does not add to the easiness of my task." "I certainly shouldn't call her an angel," said Miss Johnson and the acid tone was even more in evidence.

Whatever people say, there is right, there is wrong. There is nothing in between.' - Hercule Poirot (Murder on the Orient Express)

All this began with a rucksack.

said Mrs Willett with forced cheerfulness. 'I think we'd better have cocktails. Will you ring the bell, Mr Garfield?

I like being a cat in my home circle," said Mrs. Bantry. "I don't much like women anyway, and you know it. I like men and flowers." "Excellent taste," said Sir Henry. "Especially in putting men first.

Miss Grosvenor was an incredibly glamorous blonde. She wore an expensively cut little black suit

Whether they try to hinder or to help, they necessarily reveal their type of mind.

Women however charming, have this disadvantage - they distract the mind from food.

Fine bit of building," said Kelsey, looking at it. "It cost us a pretty penny," said Miss Bulstrode, "but we can afford it," she added serenely.

But what you don't seem to realise is that Armstrong is mad! And a madman has all the advantages on his side. He's twice as cunning as anyone sane can be.

Tony Marston, roaring down into Mere, thought to himself: "The amount of cars crawling about the roads is frightful. Always something blocking your way. And they will drive in the middle of the road! Pretty hopeless driving in England, anyway…. Not like France where you really could let out….

That she can reform a rake," said Poirot, "has always been one of women's dearest illusions!

followed his instructions, taking up my position by the baize door, and wondering what on earth lay behind the request.

Well, if you do sense evil, tell me. I shall be glad to know.

We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

There is evidently some story being circulated about you. But what that story is you must know as well as anyone. And you are going to tell me' 'It is so wicked,' moaned Mabel. 'Of course it is wicked,' I said briskly. 'There is nothing that you can tell me about people's minds that would astonish or surprise me.

It was a large room with a gleaming expanse of parquet floor on which were dotted expensive oriental rugs. It was delicately panelled in pale wood and there were some enormous stuffed chairs upholstered in pale buff leather. Behind a colossal sycamore desk, the centre and focus of the room, sat Mr. Fortescue himself.

There are certain primitive elementary forces, Raoul. Most of them have been destroyed by civilization, but motherhood stands where it stood at the beginning. Animals – human beings, they are all the same. A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Do you not know, my friend, that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and aptitudes? Mais oui, c'est vrai. One makes one's little judgments—but nine times out of ten one is wrong.

In 1922 when the great cult of the Seaside for Holidays was finally established