Agatha Christie Quotes

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

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

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.

"It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within — not without." ~ Poirot

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.