Quotes from Agatha Christie

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.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

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

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Time is the best killer.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

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

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur, ' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.

It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

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

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.