Agatha Christie Quotes

Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.

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

Miss Marple twinkled at me.

I am all that there is of the most real.

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

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

True to the precepts handed down to her by her mother and grandmother — to wit: that a true lady can neither be shocked nor surprised — Miss Marple merely raised her eyebrows and shook her head,

Was bad language used?” asked Colonel Melchett.
“It depends on what you call bad language.”
“Could you understand it?” I asked.
“Of course I could understand it.”
“Then it couldn’t have been bad language,” I said.
Mrs. Price Ridley looked at me suspiciously.
“A refined lady,” I explained, “is naturally unacquainted with bad language.

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness–youth, the time of greatest vulnerability!

I've often noticed that when coincidences start happening they go on happening in the most extraordinary way. I dare say it's some natural law that we haven't found out.

Let us think only of the good days that are to come.

"I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes..." With his arms round her, with the sudden new sweetness of his face against hers, she was filled with an exultant richness of living.

I don't want to write about it at all.
I want, you see, to think about it as little as possible. Hercule Poirot was dead - and with him died a good part of Arthur Hastings.

الناس في الغالب يقتلون من يحبون أكثر من قتلهم من يكرهون ، لأن الذين تحبهم هم وحدهم الذين يستطيعون أن يجعلوا حياتك لا تطاق

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.