Marple's Quotes

#1. And briefly and succinctly, he put Miss Marple's theory of the crime before the doctor, ending up with her final suggestion.

Agatha Christie

#2. Everyone's life has a tempo. Ruth's was presto whereas Miss Marple's was content to be adagio.

Agatha Christie

#3. Miss Marple made a ladylike noise of vexation like a cat sneezing to indicate profound disgust.

Agatha Christie

#4. There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us.

Agatha Christie

#5. I was feeling sorry for myself and immediately assumed her life was going better than mine. Ridiculous, of course - no one can know what a stranger's life is like. Often we don't even know what a loved one's life is like. We all keep so many things to ourselves.

Meredith Marple

#6. People will quite often do anything for money. - Jane Marple

Agatha Christie

#7. Perhaps it was, what you don't realize, my dear (not having killed anyone) our judgement is distorted afterward and everything seems exaggerated.

Agatha Christie

#8. I feel I could be walking down the street, and if somebody talked to me, I could just slot into 'Miss Marple' and know how she would react.

Geraldine McEwan

#9. In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.
Miss Marple

Agatha Christie

#10. But it wasn't really scandals Miss Marple wanted. Nothing to get your teeth into in scandals nowadays. Just men and women changing partners, and calling attention to it, instead of trying decently to hush it up and be properly ashamed of themselves.

Agatha Christie

#11. Love never comes when you're ready for it... As soon as you're ready for it, it's too late, and it's gone.

Katherine Marple

#12. Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

Joan Hickson

#13. Our inner selves go on without us sometimes, trusting we'll catch on eventually. Sometimes it's too late when we do - too late to let the other person know what we've learned.

Meredith Marple

#14. If his choice now was to risk either sunshine with a chance of rain or heatstroke with a chance of tornado, he'd go with the sunshine.

Meredith Marple

#15. It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.
Miss Marple from A Sleeping Murder.

Agatha Christie

#16. Edward turned to Miss Marple. "It's like this, you see. As Uncle Mathew grew older, he got more and more suspicious. He didn't trust anybody." "Very wise of him," said Miss Marple. "The depravity of human nature is unbelievable.

Agatha Christie

#17. Miss Marple made the kind of noise that would once have been written down as 'tut-tut'.

Agatha Christie

#18. Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it.

Susan Isaacs

#19. How beautiful it is that I need more lifetimes than this to say "I love you.

Meredith Marple

#20. Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use."
"And that's fair enough," sighed Craddock. "If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

Agatha Christie

#21. One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

Agatha Christie

#22. True to the precepts handed down to her by her mother and grandmother - to wit: that a true lady can neither be shocked nor surprised - Miss Marple merely raised her eyebrows and shook her head,

Agatha Christie

#23. When I first started out, I absolutely begged my agent to get me a Poirot audition, and my wish came true - I did a Poirot! I need to do a Marple to round it off.

Kimberley Nixon

#24. If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

Agatha Christie

#25. When I was asked to play 'Miss Marple,' I was given the Kevin Elyot script for 'The Body in the Library.' I was a fan of his theatre work anyway, and I just thought it was brilliant. I was immediately taken by 'Miss Marple,' so I read some of the novels, and I knew I had to do it.

Geraldine McEwan

#26. Miss Marple always sees everything. Gardening is as good as a smoke screen, and the habit of observing birds through powerful glasses can always be turned to account.

Agatha Christie

#27. Strategically placed at the level of her T3 vertebra, just below the deepest back on any of her blouses, was a tattoo of the human brain. He had to look away or else he'd jump her bones all over again. The brain got him every time.

Meredith Marple

#28. So many things are difficult, said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often.

Agatha Christie

#29. Death wasn't something to romanticize. It was something to stave off, to avoid, to fight as long as possible. Even though she had her battles with melancholy, she never seriously considered suicide. Something in her trusted that there would be an upswing and it would be worth waiting for.

Meredith Marple

#30. 'Miss Marple' enjoys every minute of her existence and is not worried about getting old.

Geraldine McEwan

#31. Marple closed her eyes and fell asleep. It felt good. She felt like a kid again. She'd waited a long time to feel like that. It felt like the universe was folding in on itself. It felt like origami birds being born. - from THE IMMORTALS ACT THEIR AGE

Eric Beeny

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

Agatha Christie

#33. Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?

Agatha Christie

#34. I thought I was the wrong shape: that Miss Marple would be much fluffier than me, much more wearing shawls and things. But I was persuaded, and now, well - I can only do it my way.

Joan Hickson

#35. I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

Helen Oyeyemi

#36. Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

Agatha Christie

#37. Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

Peter York

#38. No," said Miss Marple. "You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.

Agatha Christie

#39. She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.

Agatha Christie

#40. Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle appealing manner- Miss Wetherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. Of the two Miss Marple is the more dangerous.

Agatha Christie

#41. The only groups I willingly joined were spontaneous, short-lived, and usually game-playing.

Meredith Marple

#42. Human nature is always interesting ... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way. - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167

Agatha Christie

#43. Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple

Agatha Christie

#44. Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she'd hook me up with a clue

Ilona Andrews

#45. Such a sweet letter from Lady Conway ... You remember my telling you about her? Her memory's bad. Can't recognize her relations always and tells them to go away."
"That might be shrewdness really," said Miss Marple, "rather than a loss of memory.

Agatha Christie

#46. He didn't fold his arms around her, and he didn't hold her close. Instead, he gave her a kiss that suggested a future.

Meredith Marple

#47. Yes," said Miss Marple. "The children of Lucifer are often beautiful - And as we know, they flourish like the green bay tree.

Agatha Christie

#48. I have made it a habit," said Miss Marple. "To be careful?" "I should not put it exactly like that, but I have made a point of being always ready to disbelieve as well as believe anything that is told to me.

Agatha Christie

#49. The ski club was a frugal and intergenerational group. It gave dime-store trophies for speed and agility within categories of gender, age, and experience, and so eventually everyone got a trophy.

Meredith Marple