Quotes from Agatha Christie

Imposibilul nu poate sa se fi intamplat, ca atare imposibilul trebuie sa fie posibil, in ciuda aparentelor.

And, frankly, I don't like murder. It's the sort of thing that's fun to read about in the paper or to read yourself to sleep with in the way of a nice book. But the real thing isn't so good.

Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory

One should never go by what people say.

One can't argue with a point of view.

Old sins have long shadows.

I think human beings matter more than stones. (Signor Richetti)

Marriage will cure me, I expect. It always seems to have a very sobering effect on people.

They wish not to become adult—not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.

It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.

the elephant can remember.

Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?" "Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot.

Why did Juliet fall for Romeo? Well for one thing, with all due deference for Shakespeare, he happened to be the first man she had seen.

The old gentleman refuses to have the telephone which he regards as a device of the devil, and on a par with radio, television, cinema organs and jet planes, so I had to take a chance of finding him at home.

At all events, let us examine the position from the point of view of murder, not suicide." "Oh, all right. If you are on the scene, it probably would be murder!" For a moment Poirot smiled. "I hardly like that remark.

Poirot said "you will find,M.le docteur,if you have much to do with cases of this kind,that they all resemble each other in one thing." "what is that?" I asked curiously "everyone concerned in them has something to hide

Précisément! The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

I don't feel as though I've got the heart to eat anything," and then partook of everything offered her,

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.' 'Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?' 'It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.

If she'd been born in an African tribe she might have been a witch doctor.

Take what you want, says God, but pay for it

I know—I know. To all of us, Mademoiselle, there comes a time when death is preferable to life. But it passes—sorrow passes and grief. You cannot believe that now, I know.

DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL.

She was quite a kindly woman. What she said at the last in the kitchen was quite true. 'I didn't want to kill anybody.' What she wanted was a great deal of money that didn't belong to her! And before that desire—(and it had become a kind of obsession—the money was to pay her back for all the suffering life had inflicted on her)—everything else went to the wall.