Top 100 Quotes About Agatha Christie
#1. Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it.
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#2. It is fundamentals that matter
not the trappings. (Alice Cunningham)
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#3. When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.
Sophie Hannah
#4. I should hope, Mr. Poirot, that whatever our feelings, we can keep them in decent control. And we can certainly control our actions.
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#5. You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
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#6. I can look after her all right, sir," said Tommy, at exactly the same minute as Tuppence said, "I can take care of myself.
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#7. Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.
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#8. There is no such thing as Death, really, you know, only Change.
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#9. What are you doing, Poirot?"
"I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.
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#10. Writers are diffident creatures
they need encouragement.
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#11. Death was temporary, lasting only long enough to provoke a laugh from kids in pajamas sitting cross-legged in front of the TV set, gorging themselves on handfuls of Froot Loops.
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#12. Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.
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#13. Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.
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#14. If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
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#15. I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.
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#17. That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.
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#19. Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?
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#20. Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
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#21. The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.
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#22. What an awful place to live in England is, ... If it isn't snowing or raining or blowing it's misty. And if the sun does shine it's so cold that you can't feel your fingers or toes.
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#23. One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.
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#24. A secret de Polichinelle is a secret that everyone can know. For this reason the people who do not know it never hear about it - for if everyone thinks you know a thing, nobody tells you.
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#25. A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.
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#26. It wasn't what you were born to, and no good comes from getting out of your station in life.
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#27. There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.
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#28. One of the worst things in the world today, the unkindness of woman to woman. You
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#30. I had just finished carving some boiled beef (remarkably tough by the way) and on resuming my seat I remarked, in a spirit most unbecoming to my cloth, that anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world at large a service.
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#31. It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
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#32. My dear Mr. Schwartz, you appeared in the nick of time. It might have been a drama on the stage! I am very much in your debt.
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#33. If you hadn't anything worth saying why go chattering all the time?
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#34. This book is dedicated to the many readers in this and in other countries who write to me asking: 'What has happened to Tommy and Tuppence? What are they doing now?' My best wishes to you all, and I hope you will enjoy meeting Tommy and Tuppence again, years older, but with spirit unquenched!
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#35. Well," said Adam, as Poirot went out. "First girls' knees, and now draughtsmanship! What next, I wonder!
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#36. The police, they're seemingly so frank, and they tell you nothing.
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#37. And for five long hours the little man sat motionless, blinking his eyelids like a cat, his green eyes flickering and becoming steadily greener and greener.
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#38. There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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#39. Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
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#40. What was one to do, thought Adela, with someone who didn't talk gardening or dogs - those standbys of rural conversation.
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#41. I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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#43. If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syringe and a bottle labelled cocaine, but for God's sake leave that violin alone.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express
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#46. The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
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#47. One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself.
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#49. The detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
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#50. I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.
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#51. Curious, sometimes, how one's thoughts seemed to swing in a kaleidoscope. It happened to me now. A bewildering shuffling and reshuffling of memories, of events. Then the mosaic settled into its true pattern.
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#52. A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty, remarked Hercule Poirot.
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#54. Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
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#55. Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.
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#56. When you find that people are not telling you the truth
look out!
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#57. But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.
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#58. Yes, I remember the one you mean. All a lot of hooey, though.
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#59. People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.
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#61. In case, I would prefer to say, that some circumstances should strike me in a different light to the one in which it struck you. Human reactions vary and so does human experience.
~Hercule Poirot
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#62. I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
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#63. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
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#64. When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.
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#65. One takes things for granted too much, said Emily Brent.
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#66. To say that Agatha Christie's characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.
Ruth Rendell
#67. Detective stories are mostly bunkum ... But they amuse people ... And they're useful sometimes.
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#68. There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly.
Poirot said drily: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!
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#69. Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
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#71. There was a moment's stupefied silence. Japp, who was the least surprised of any of us, was the first to speak.
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#72. Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!
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#73. DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL.
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#75. I said, life will not pass her by. Strange and exciting events will surround her. You've only got to look at her to know it.
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#76. What can I say at seventy-five? Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me.
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#77. The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.
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#79. You took thoughts, choosing them out of your store, and then, not dwelling on them, you let them slip through the fingers of your mind, never clutching at them, never dwelling on them, no concentration ... just letting them drift gently past.
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#80. A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.
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#81. Too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.
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#85. She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?'
'I don't think that's possible,' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere.
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#86. [Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.
Nigel Dennis
#87. There is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!
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#88. So many things are difficult, said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often.
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#89. My friend, in working upon a case, one does not take into account only the things that are "mentioned". There is no reason to mention many things which may be important. Equally, there is often an excellent reason for not mentioning them.
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#90. Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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#92. When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
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#93. And suddenly, with a terrific shock, with that feeling as of blurring on a cinematograph screen before the picture comes to focus, Hercule Poirot realized that this artificially set scene had a point of reality ...
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#94. How often is tittle tattle, as you call it, true! And I think if, as I say, they really examined the facts they would find that it was true nine times out of ten! That's really just what makes people so annoyed about it.
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#95. Starting off from Cranchester. All later events seem to have been wiped
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#97. But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again.
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#98. Is there a common denominator? I wonder. You know, if there is, I should be inclined to say it is vanity.
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#99. There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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#100. Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!
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