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Quotes About Judgment

Miss Marple made the kind of noise that would once have been written down as 'tut-tut'.
~ Agatha Christie
If you will forgive me for being personal---I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
~ Agatha Christie
One should never go by what people say.
~ Agatha Christie
These women all lose their heads over a good-looking clergyman. You hear of it over and over again.
~ Agatha Christie
What they need," said Griselda, "is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's." And
~ Agatha Christie
I don't like that woman. I don't like the hat she is wearing, and I don't like her mushroom-coloured stockings.
~ Agatha Christie
They turned me out of one place today because I had on a sleeveless dress,' she said ruefully. 'Apparently the Almighty doesn't like my arms in spite of having made them.
~ Agatha Christie
It is really a very hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
~ Agatha Christie
sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen.
~ Agatha Christie
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small—
~ Agatha Christie
It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.
~ Agatha Christie
so many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly." Mr.
~ Agatha Christie
Me and Moosier here have met before—and there's no man's judgment I'd sooner take than his. If I'm not greatly mistaken, he's got something up his sleeve. Isn't that so, moosier?" Poirot smiled. "I have drawn certain conclusions—yes.
~ Agatha Christie
Perhaps it was, what you don't realize, my dear (not having killed anyone) our judgement is distorted afterward and everything seems exaggerated.
~ Agatha Christie
You can't rightly estimate what a man will do when he's in drink.
~ Agatha Christie
Madame, the most kind, the most amiable are not always the cleverest.
~ Agatha Christie
If you will forgive me for being personal—I do not like your face, M. Ratchett,' Poirot said.
~ Agatha Christie
Race nodded. He had only met George's wife once. He had thought her a singularly lovely nitwit—but certainly not a melancholic type.
~ Agatha Christie
Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better—who are undeveloped—who are to be pitied rather than blamed.
~ Agatha Christie
Decidedly it was the policy of an imbecile.
~ Agatha Christie
What's wrong with my proposition? Poirot rose. If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like tour face, M. Ratchett, he said.
~ Agatha Christie
It is always wise to suspect everybody until you can prove logically, and to your own satisfaction, that they are innocent." -- Hercule Poirot
~ Agatha Christie
But you didn't like him?" "Shall we put it that I don't care very much for Americans, sir." "Have you ever been in America?" "No, sir.
~ Agatha Christie
People take you at your own valuation.
~ Agatha Christie