Agatha Christie Quotes

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

"Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know."

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

[Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth — -look out!

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? — Poirot

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!