45 Agatha Christie Quotes

* But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

* Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

* Time is the best killer.

* 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.

* Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

* I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

* 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.

* Necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

* I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them. 

* Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go. 

* Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

* Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

* 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.

* In the midst of life, we are in death.

* One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

* Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

* Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know. 

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

* Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill. 

* It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance. 

* 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.

* An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

* When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

* It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

* The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

* Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

* As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

* To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.

* Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture.

Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

* It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely.  

* But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

* The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....

* I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

* It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. 

* An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

* 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. 

* Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

* One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

* Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.