Quotes from Agatha Christie

I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

To be content with what Nature has given you, that - that is stupid!

Brott kan föda romantik.

Todos somos extraños unos a otros y que, en esas circunstancias, nadie puede ser exonerado sin la prueba más completa. Hay, como he dicho, un demonio entre nosotros.

His eyes were set rather close together and they had a way of shifting uneasily from side to side when he was embarrassed. He was inclined to be suspicious and slightly hostile.

Seakan-akan kau benar-benar mencintaiku.

Emily Brent, Vera Claythorne, Dr. Armstrong, Anthony Marston, old Justice Wargrave, Philip Lombard, General Macarthur, C.M.G., D.S.O. Manservant and wife: Mr. and Mrs. Rogers.

Poirot, never in the least scrupulous about reading other people's correspondence, glanced through them.

Miss Grosvenor glided up to him in her swanlike manner.

He's pretty old. Probably more or less ga ga.

there was a good deal going on underneath the quietness.

an expert fisherman knows exactly what flies to offer to what fish.

It is misfortune of small precise men to hanker after large and flamboyant women.

Mr Satterthwaite clucked twice in vexation. Whether right in his assumption or not, he was more and more convinced that cars nowadays broke down far more frequently than they used to do.

My father, Professor Beddingfeld, was one of England's greatest living authorities on Primitive Man. He really was a genius—everyone admits that. His mind dwelt in Palaeolithic times, and the inconvenience of life for him was that his body inhabited the modern world. Papa did not care for modern man—even Neolithic Man he despised as a mere herder of cattle, and he did not rise to enthusiasm until he reached the Mousterian period.

Mr. Fortescue's contribution to the ritual was a grunt.

You've been reading G. K. Chesterton," I said, and Lawrence did not deny it.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself. I'd made a point of that at school and onwards, boasted about things a bit, said a few things stretching the truth a bit I wasn't ashamed of it. Uriah something his name was, always going about being humble and rubbing his hands, and actually planning and scheming behind that humility. I didn't want to be like that." -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

In case, I would prefer to say, that some circumstances should strike me in a different light to the one in which it struck you. Human reactions vary and so does human experience. ~Hercule Poirot

One counsel's questioning brings out testimony as to the resemblances, the defence brings evidence to show dissimilarity.

Is he then an unhappy man?" Poirot said : "So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy." The nun said softly: "Ah, a rich man...

That's right," said Mrs. Oliver in an exasperated voice, "blame it all on me as usual!

Well, go on, Aunt Jane; haven't you got anything to say?' 'In a minute, dear, said Miss Marple. 'I am afraid I have counted wrong. Two purl, three plain, slip one, two purl?yes, that's right. What did you say, dear?' 'What is your opinion?' 'You wouldn't like my opinion, dear. Young people never do, I notice. It is better to say nothing.

It was old Scrymgour. Somebody looked into his church one day. He was leaning out of the pulpit and preaching fervently to a couple of old charwomen. He was shaking his finger at them and saying, 'Aha! I know what you are thinking. You think that the Great Ahasuerus of the First Lesson was Artaxerxes the Second. But he wasn't!' And then with enormous triumph, 'He was Artaxerxes the Third.