Agatha Christie Quotes

Flattery, in Tuppence's opinion, should always be laid on with a trowel where a man is concerned.

‘Truth of it is,’ said Commander Haydock, steering rather erratically round a one-way island and narrowly missing collision with a large van, ‘when the beggars are right, one remembers it, and when they’re wrong you forget it.’

‘I have often noticed that being a devoted wife saps the intellect,’ murmured Tommy.

Is it coding — or code breaking? Is it like Deborah's job? Do be careful, Tommy, people go queer doing that and can't sleep and walk about all night groaning and repeating 978345286 or something like that and finally have nervous breakdowns and go into homes.

There is always something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

The crime is now logical and reasonable.

I agree with you. It is here a family affair. It is a poison that works in the blood — it is intimate — it is deep-seated. There is here, I think, hate and knowledge…

Yes. I like to see people get angry. I like it very much. But here in England they do not get angry like they do in Spain. In Spain they take out their knives and they curse and shout. In England they do nothing, just get very red in the face and shut up their mouths tight.

He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.

The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.

“Yes, Mr. Lee.” Superintendent Sugden did not wast time on explanations. “What’s all this?”

Pilar — remember — nothing is so boring as devotion.

Pilar sat squeezed up against the window and thought how very odd the English smelt.

And Mr. Burnaby said acutely: "Well, it doesn't seem to have done her much good, poor lass." But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.

“It’s so dreadfully easy — killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn’t matter… That it’s only you that matters! It’s dangerous — that.”