Quotes from Agatha Christie

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

Curious thing, rooms. Tell you quite a lot about the people who live in them.

You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

Fear, what a strange thing fear was...

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away …

That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

The past is the father of the present.

A man doesn't want to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, is it not? I have always admired red-haired women. Your hair is very beautiful. There are other things I like about you. Your spirit, your courage; the fact that you have a mind of your own. ~Mr. Aristides

Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

I think 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.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.