Agatha Christie Quotes

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

You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

Blood tells — always remember that — blood tells.

“Ah!” Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it. “Beware! Peril to the detective who says: ‘It is so small — it does not matter. It will not agree. I will forget it.’ That way lies confusion! Everything matters.”

The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He's got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!

I have given them life instead of death, freedom instead of the cords of superstition, beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation. The old bad days are over for them, the Light of the Aton has risen, and they can dwell in peace and harmony freed from the shadow of fear and oppression.