Agatha Christie Quotes

... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

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

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?'
'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.

You're very young...you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all - that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that too someday...

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

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

"قالت الآنسة ماربل :" إن المحادثات دائماً ما تكون خطيرة ، إذا كان عندك شيء تخفيه

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.

When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour.”

He paused.

“It's Zero Hour now.

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.

She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?'

You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'

That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

"I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.