Agatha Christie Quotes

It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

"What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett."

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

الكسل ذنب لا يُغتفر

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.