Agatha Christie
190 quotes
Biography
"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."
"Very few of us are what we seem."
"The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."
"Poirot,"I said. "I have been thinking.""An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it."
"If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off."
"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
"It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down."
"To every problem, there is a most simple solution."
"In the midst of life, we are in death."
"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."
"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."
"What good is money if it can't buy happiness?"
"One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none."
"It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy."
"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."
"One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late."
"We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age."
"Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei."
"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."
"Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!"
"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."
"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."
"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!"
"“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.”"
"Blood tells — always remember that — blood tells."