Agatha Christie Quotes
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“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”
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“Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”
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“I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.”
― Appointment with Death
― Appointment with Death

“Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.”
― Murder at the Vicarage
― Murder at the Vicarage

“When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.”
― And Then There Were None
― And Then There Were None

“Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly staged her own disappearance in order to exact an elegant revenge on a cheating husband? They probably did not. And no one was going to discount Stevie Bell, who had gotten into this school on the wings of her interest in the Ellingham case, and who had been a bystander at a death that was now looking more and more suspicious.”
― Truly, Devious
― Truly, Devious

“Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.”
― Five Little Pigs
― Five Little Pigs

“I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?'
Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies.
'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.'
'Nemesis? And what does that mean?'
'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.”
― Nemesis
Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies.
'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.'
'Nemesis? And what does that mean?'
'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.”
― Nemesis

“Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie?”
― The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
― The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).”
― The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories
― The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

“Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains---if you've got any. And, if necessary--act.”
― Death on the Nile
― Death on the Nile

“And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-"
"Ah, no, my friend-"
"From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.”
― Murder on the Orient Express
"Ah, no, my friend-"
"From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.”
― Murder on the Orient Express
“She might have trusted you. But Mademoiselle Katherine has spent a great deal of her life listening, and those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one”
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“You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy.
'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance.
'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy.”
― Postern of Fate
'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance.
'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy.”
― Postern of Fate

“Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.”
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“There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as a symptom of crime.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir

“I'd rather have my job than yours."
"Why?"
"Because your job deals very largely with what we call right and
wrong 鈥� and I'm not at all sure that there's any such thing.
Suppose it's all a question of glandular secretion. Too much of
one gland, too little of another 鈥� and you get your murderer,
your thief, your habitual criminal. Clement, I believe the time will
come when we'll be horrified to think of the long centuries in
which we've indulged in what you may call moral reprobation, to
think how we've punished people for disease 鈥� which they can't
help, poor devils. You don't hang a man for having tuberculosis.”
― Murder at the Vicarage
"Why?"
"Because your job deals very largely with what we call right and
wrong 鈥� and I'm not at all sure that there's any such thing.
Suppose it's all a question of glandular secretion. Too much of
one gland, too little of another 鈥� and you get your murderer,
your thief, your habitual criminal. Clement, I believe the time will
come when we'll be horrified to think of the long centuries in
which we've indulged in what you may call moral reprobation, to
think how we've punished people for disease 鈥� which they can't
help, poor devils. You don't hang a man for having tuberculosis.”
― Murder at the Vicarage

“It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. . . . We've only one life to live.”
― Five Little Pigs
― Five Little Pigs

“Do you know what you sound like?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'A computer. You know. You're programming yourself. That's what they call it, isn't it? I mean you're feeding all these things into yourself all day and then you're going to see what comes out.”
― Hallowe'en Party
― Hallowe'en Party

“The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna - though not one or the other in particular. He was not definitely Jewish, nor definitely Greek nor Portugese nor Spanish, nor South American. What did seem highly unlikely was that he was an Englishman called Robinson.”
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“Poirot was standing in the larder in a dramtic attitude. In his hand he was brandishing a leg of mutton.
'My dear Poirot! What is the matter? have you gone mad?'
'Regard i pray you this mutton! But regard it closely!”
― The Big Four
'My dear Poirot! What is the matter? have you gone mad?'
'Regard i pray you this mutton! But regard it closely!”
― The Big Four

“廿賳 賱賯丕亍 卮禺氐 賲乇丞 兀禺乇賶 亘毓丿 廿賳賯胤丕毓 胤賵賷賱 賲乇亘賰賹 廿賱賶 丨丿 賲丕 賵廿賳 賷賰賳 丨丕囟乇 賮賷 匕賴賳賰 胤賵丕賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮鬲乇丞”
― Crooked House
― Crooked House
“La vie est vaine,
Un peu d鈥檃mour,
Un peu de haine,
Et puis鈥擝onjour!
La vie est br猫ve:
Un peu d鈥檈spoir,
Un peu de r猫ve
Et puis鈥擝on soir!
Ah, brief is Life,
Love鈥檚 short sweet way,
With dreamings rife,
And then鈥擥ood-day!
And Life is vain鈥�
Hope鈥檚 vague delight,
Grief鈥檚 transient pain,
And then鈥擥ood-night.”
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Un peu d鈥檃mour,
Un peu de haine,
Et puis鈥擝onjour!
La vie est br猫ve:
Un peu d鈥檈spoir,
Un peu de r猫ve
Et puis鈥擝on soir!
Ah, brief is Life,
Love鈥檚 short sweet way,
With dreamings rife,
And then鈥擥ood-day!
And Life is vain鈥�
Hope鈥檚 vague delight,
Grief鈥檚 transient pain,
And then鈥擥ood-night.”
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“隆El dinero es rid铆culo! 隆El cr茅dito es rid铆culo! 隆Convenga usted en que la vida tiene mucho de rid铆culo!”
― Death in the Clouds
― Death in the Clouds
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