Top 100 Quotes About Agatha Christie: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Agatha Christie

#1. 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

#2. Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

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#3. To say that Agatha Christie's characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

Ruth Rendell

#4. [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

#5. As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.

Christopher Bollen

#6. 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?

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.

Samantha Bond

#8. I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading ... I wasn't reading anything great until I got older, but I used to read Agatha Christie mysteries and all of Ian Fleming's 'James Bond' novels.

Michael Riedel

#9. I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.

M. Night Shyamalan

#10. I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.

Ha-Joon Chang

#11. I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

Connie Willis

#12. That's because superstition has it that the first person who gets up from a party of thirteen will die?"
"Precisely. I believe Agatha Christie even wrote a mystery about it.

David Baldacci

#13. It's heretical, I know, but I've never really been able to get on with Agatha Christie. She is, of course, a giant of the genre, but I never feel that she cared a great deal about the characters. Consequently, neither do I.

Mark Billingham

#14. When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

Sara Sheridan

#15. I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

Sophie Kinsella

#16. Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Sophie Hannah

#17. I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

Maureen Johnson

#18. Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader. She doesn't want to be deep or highbrow.

Sophie Hannah

#19. The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.

Niels Arden Oplev

#20. History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.

Sara Sheridan

#21. Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.

Barbara Bothwell

#22. Phryne opened her book and sipped her lemonade. Agatha Christie. What a plotter. Phryne wished briefly that the real world was so amenable to being solved. ***

Kerry Greenwood

#23. SOYINKA WON THE NOBEL PRIZE
ACHEBE, LITERARY COMMANDER
P.D. JAMES, WE LOVE HER
AGATHA CHRISTIE, QUEEN OF CRIME

S.A. David

#24. The Agatha Christie Collection Christie Crime Classics The Man in the Brown Suit The Secret of Chimneys The Seven Dials Mystery The Mysterious Mr Quin The Sittaford

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#25. Agatha Christie n. A silent, putrid fart committed by someone in this very room, and only one person knows whodunnit.

VIZ

#26. I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#27. It is good to be married to an archeologist because the older you get the more interested he becomes in you. Agatha Christie

Shirley Bullock

#28. Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

Nancy Banks-Smith

#29. You need to read some Agatha Christie, man.
Why? Am I being punished?

Joe R. Lansdale

#30. The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

Christopher Fowler

#31. Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

Salman Rushdie

#32. Poetry is not the most important thing in life ... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

Dylan Thomas

#33. Late summer is perfect for classic mysteries - think of Raymond Chandler's hot Santa Anas and Agatha Christie's Mediterranean resorts - while big ambitious works of nonfiction are best approached in September and early October, when we still feel energetic and the grass no longer needs to be cut.

Michael Dirda

#34. I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

Stephen Sondheim

#35. I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.

A.S. Byatt

#36. Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a 'Let's find out who the murderer is', which is kind of mysterious but not that mysterious. She always started with, 'How can this thing be happening; isn't it strange?'

Sophie Hannah

#37. I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.

Christopher Bollen

#38. Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, so instead of trying to replicate it exactly, the way I got around it was by inventing a new narrator.

Sophie Hannah

#39. Ahh it rejoices the heart. Nothing here offends the eye"
~Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)

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#40. I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.

Adrian McKinty

#41. Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.

Sophie Hannah

#42. For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

John Updike

#43. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

Val McDermid

#44. I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I already have a cat called Hercule!

Kimberley Nixon

#45. 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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#46. It is fundamentals that matter
not the trappings. (Alice Cunningham)

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#47. 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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#48. You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. There is no such thing as Death, really, you know, only Change.

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#52. What are you doing, Poirot?"
"I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.

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#53. Writers are diffident creatures
they need encouragement.

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#54. 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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#55. Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.

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#56. Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

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#57. If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

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#58. I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.

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#59. Death is for other people.

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#60. That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

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#61. Where there is murder, anything can happen.

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#62. Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?

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#63. Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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#64. The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.

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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. It wasn't what you were born to, and no good comes from getting out of your station in life.

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#70. 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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#71. One of the worst things in the world today, the unkindness of woman to woman. You

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#72. Always the facts must be twisted to fit the theory!

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#73. 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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#74. It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

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#75. 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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#76. If you hadn't anything worth saying why go chattering all the time?

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#77. 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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#78. Well," said Adam, as Poirot went out. "First girls' knees, and now draughtsmanship! What next, I wonder!

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#79. The police, they're seemingly so frank, and they tell you nothing.

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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. They are never really dead, these super criminals

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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.

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#89. One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself.

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#90. Let us think only of the good days that are to come.

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#91. The detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

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#92. 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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#93. 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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