Agatha Christie Quotes

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

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

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

Assumptions are dangerous things.

An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

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

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.