Quotes from Agatha Christie

It is irregular. I know it is irregular. Yes. But I have a high regard for human happiness. " "You have none for mine!" said Race.

One must have the courage to face reality. Without that courage, life is meaningless. The people who do us most harm are the people who shield us from reality

I do not complain," said Poirot, and proceeded to do so.

Günah?n seni daima izler bunu unutma.

My dear Aunt," said Raymond West with some amusement, "I didn't mean that sort of village incident. I was thinking of murders and disappearances—the kind of thing that Sir Henry could tell us about by the hour if he liked.

The chains of habit. We work to attain an object, and the object gained, we find that what we miss is the daily toil. And mark you, monsieur, my work was interesting work. The most interesting work there is in the world.

liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

he seemed in a great hurry, and anxious to get away." I have no doubt but that that was the case.

It's possible," said Superintendent Battle. "It's only a hypothesis, but it's possible." "It is a little more than possible, my friend—it is also probable.

Yes, yes," he said. "That is true. They must have no inkling that we are using them for our own ends. They are honest men--and that is their value to us. It is curious--but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. The instinct of the populace is infallible." He paused, and then repeated, as though the phrase pleased him: "Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

One must take the downs with the ups, my friend.

what is madness? I can assure you that the more we study the subject, the more difficult we find it to pronounce. We all practise a certain amount of self-deception, and when we carry it so far as to believe we are the Czar of Russia, we are shut up or restrained. But there is a long road before we reach that point. At what particular spot on it shall we erect a post and say, 'On this side sanity, on the other madness?

After all, this is a free country—" "English people seem to labour under that misapprehension," murmured Poirot. "And I should hope anyone can leave their money exactly as they choose! I think Miss Arundell acted very wisely. Obviously she mistrusted her own relatives and I daresay she had her reasons.

Every man has his own way of courting the female sex. I should not, myself, choose to do it with photographs of spleens, diseased or otherwise.

The past is sometimes a very good place to live

You and I, Hastings, are going hunting once again.

?nsanlar yalanlara gerçeklerden daha kolay inan?rlar.

The extraordinary sanity of the insane is a most interesting subject.

But rest assured, my indications will lead you to the truth." He paused. Then he said: "And perhaps, then, you would wish that they had not led you so far. You would say instead: 'Ring down the curtain.

Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September—a Thursday. I was sent for at eight o'clock on the morning of Friday the 17th. There was nothing to be done. She had been dead some hours.

I'm afraid you'll find it very quiet down here, Hastings." "My dear fellow, that's just what I want.

Some day she will know how wise old men are.

I held my breath for a moment or two, and then I let myself rip.

Blowpipes and darts——heathen, I call it," said Mrs. Mitchell. "You are right," said Poirot, addressing her with a flattering air of being struck by her remarks. "Not so is an English murder committed." "You're right, sir.