Quotes from Agatha Christie

manner. He was very apologetic. So early

Of course it is wicked,' I said briskly. 'There is nothing that you can tell me about people's minds that would astonish or surprise me.

What have I always told you? Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory — let the theory go.

do not waste time taking photographs of interiors they are underexposed and not in the least artistic.

She began laughing wildly again. Dr. Armstrong strode forward. He raised his hand and struck her a flat blow on the cheek. She gasped, hiccupped—and swallowed. She stood motionless a minute, then she said: "Thank you … I'm all right now.

As though in a dream Edward opened the door, and she sprang lightly in beside him. Her furs swept his check, and an elusive scent, like that of violets after rain, assailed his nostrils.

O que posso fazer para afastar a lembrança dos meus olhos?

Flora is like all these young girls nowadays, with no veneration for their betters and thinking they know best on every subject under the sun,

You mean that luck turns?' 'Exactly, Hastings. And that is where the gambler (and the murderer, who is, after all, only a supreme kind of gambler since what he risks is not his money but his life) often lacks intelligent anticipation. Because he has won he thinks he will continue to win! He does not leave the tables in good time with his pocket full.

Heart failure may always be translated as the inability of the local GP to discover what his patient really did die of...

often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

They left the cabin. Race locked the door and took the key with him. "We can come back later," he said. "The first thing to do is to get all the facts clear.

As pessoas são realmente muito parecidas em todos os lugares.

You forget," I said. "My calling obliges me to respect one quality above all others — the quality of mercy." "Well, I'm a just man. No one can deny that." I did not speak, and he said sharply: "Why don't you answer? A penny for your thoughts, man." I hesitated, then I decided to speak. "I was thinking," I said, "that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

So in crime the murderer who is successful cannot conceive the possibility of not being successful! He takes to himself all the credit for a successful performance—but I tell you, my friends, however carefully planned, no crime can be successful without luck!

Compréndanme bien: quiero llegar a la verdad. Ésta, por fea que sea, es siempre curiosa y resulta hermosa para el que la busca con afán.

Mr Blore was writing carefully in a little notebook. 'That's the lot,' he muttered to himself. 'Emily Brent, Vera Claythorne, Dr Armstrong, Anthony Marston, old Justice Wargrave, Philip Lombard, General Macarthur, CMG, DSO, Manservant and wife: Mr and Mrs Rogers.

It's well-nigh impossible, sir. But this particular escape was extraordinarily well planned and carried out. We haven't nearly got to the bottom of it yet.

Yours didn't come out. You under exposed it. You always do." "It is nice for you," said Tuppence, "to think that there is one thing you can do better than me.

we can win the war—make no mistake about that—but only if we don't lose it first. And the danger of losing it comes, not from outside—not from the might of Germany's bombers, not from her seizure of neutral countries and fresh vantage points from which to attack—but from within.

But you see, Miss Helier, this isn't a serial story. This is real life; and real life stops just where it chooses.

Poirot had the capacity to attract confidences. It was as though when people were talking to him they hardly realised who it was they were talking to.

Instinct is a marvellous thing," mused Poirot. "It can neither be explained nor ignored.

slack time. The war was