Agatha Christie Quotes

The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.

لا يستوعب المرء اللحظات ذات الأهمية الحقيقية في حياته إلا عندما يكون الأوان قد فات !

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

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

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

“I like to see an angry Englishman,” said Poirot. “They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.”

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.

It is not the past that matters,but the future

"Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else."

"Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality."

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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

Oh, dear, it's quite true what Dr. Reilly said. How does one stop writing? If I could find a really good telling phrase... Like the one M. Poirot used. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate... Something like that.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?