Agatha Christie Quotes

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.

That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

I suggest to you that, although you may have endeavored to gloss over the fact to yourself, you did deliberately set about taking your husband from your friend. I suggest that you felt strongly attracted to him at once. But I suggest that there was a moment when you hesitated, when you realized that there was a choice–that you could refrain or go on. I suggest that the initiative rested with you–not with Monsieur Doyle. … You had everything, Madame, that life can offer. Your friend’s life was bound up in one person. You knew that, but, though you hesitated, you did not hold your hand. You stretched it out and, like the rich man in the Bible, you took the poor man’s one ewe lamb.

I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around — seeking always something that is not very nice.

always bear in mind that the person who speaks may be lying

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

The reason he liked attending rich patients rather than poor ones was the he could exercise his active imagination in prescribing for their ailments.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

And then, startling in its crisp transatlantic tones, a voice said: “Stick ’em up.” They swerved around. Schwartz, dressed in a peculiarly vivid set of striped pyjamas stood in the doorway. In his hand he held an automatic. “Stick ’em up, guys. I’m pretty good at shooting.” He pressed the trigger — and a bullet sang past the big man's ear and buried itself in the woodwork of the window. Three pairs of hands were raised rapidly.

...Murder, I have often noticed, is a great matchmaker.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

I have always been so sure — too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express