Quotes from Agatha Christie

Rhoda Dawes came out of Debenham's and stood meditatively upon the pavement.

Like all men, he was a spoilt child; he expected everybody to make a fuss of him.

The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

From a recumbent position he looked up at Mr Blore and said with immense dignity: 'I'm talking to you, young man. The day of judgment is very close at hand.' Subsiding on to his seat Mr Blore thought to himself: He's nearer the day of judgment than I am! But there, as it happens, he was wrong…

Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is!

Papa had never loved me, I knew that well enough. If he had, I might have loved him in return. No, there had not been love between us, but we had belonged together, and I had looked after him,

One wants to know," said Miss Marple, "what really happened." "She was killed." "Yes, but who killed her, and why, and what happened to her body? Where is it now?" "That's the business of the police to find out.

Precisely. A murderer is always a gambler. And, like many gamblers, a murderer often does not know when to stop. With each crime his opinion of his own abilities is strengthened. His sense of proportion is warped. He does not say "I have been clever and lucky!" No, he says only "I have been clever!

Lejeune shook his head. "It's not like that at all," he said. "Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man.

She wanted butter. She wanted lots of butter." "It's not just a question of butter,

She's half Italian, you know, and the Italians have that unconscious vein of cruelty. They've no compassion for anyone who's old or ugly, or peculiar in any way.

Les femmes," generalized Poirot. "They are marvelous! They invent haphazard—and by miracle they are right. Not that it is that, really. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition. Me, I am very skilled in psychology. I know these things.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition. Me, I am very skilled in psychology. I know these things.

Yes, yes, it is as I say. You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes—two people. One is le bon Dieu—" He raised a hand to heaven, and then settling himself back in his chair and shutting his eyelids, he murmured comfortably: "And the other is Hercule Poirot.

Saya katakan padanya bahwa saya boleh menamakan diri saya Nemesis, Dewi Keadilan, dan dia suka sekali mendengarnya.

It's so stupid never to feel anything…

For some reason, Poirot had always been a person it was easy to talk to.

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. - Old Man Charles

She was reported to be the most beautiful woman in England. It was also rumoured that she was the stupidest.

Do you know, Poirot, I almost wish sometimes that you would commit a murder." "Mon cher!" "Yes, I'd like to see just how you'd set about it." "My dear Japp, if I committed a murder you would not have the least chance of seeing—how I set about it! You would not even be aware, probably, that a murder had been committed.

No. It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.

I mounted her and she went off riding through the trees.

These problems were Miss Marple's first introduction to the world of detective story readers. Miss Marple has some faint affinity with my own grandmother, also a pink and white pretty old lady who, although having led the most sheltered and Victorian of lives, nevertheless always appeared to be intimately acquainted with all the depths of human depravity.

I will give you my valuable advice. You needn't take it. People seldom do take advice, but you might as well have it.