Agatha Christie Quotes

...the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...

Mademoiselle, I beseech you, do not do what you are doing.” “Leave dear Linnet alone, you mean!” “It is deeper than that. Do not open your heart to evil.” Her lips fell apart; a look of bewilderment came into her eyes. Poirot went on gravely: “Because — if you do — evil will come…Yes, very surely evil will come…It will enter in and make its home within you, and after a little while it will no longer be possible to drive it out.

In my end is my beginning — that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...

"What's wrong with my proposition?"
Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face."

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

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory — -let the theory go.

‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it — none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.

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

"What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett."

Death was for-the other people.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

"What are you doing, Poirot?"
"I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting."

He could have shot her from behind a hedge in the good old Irish fashion and probably got away with it.

You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy.
'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance.
'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy.

"He played the part of the devil too successfully. But he was not the devil. Au fond, he was a stupid man. And so - he died."
"Because he was stupid?"
"It is the sin that is never forgiven and always punished, madame."