Agatha Christie Quotes

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

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

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

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

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Time is the best killer.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!