Quotes About Crime

You cannot have a murder without motive." -- Hercule Poirot

One may have a crime without a murderer, but for two crimes it is essential to have two bodies." -- Hercule Poirot

My theory is the truth," said Poirot quietly. "And the truth is necessarily correct. In your theory you made a fundamental error. You permitted your imagination to lead you astray with midnight assignations and passionate love scenes. But in investigating crime we must take our stand upon the commonplace.

I make a good income and I only kill a reasonable number of my patients. How's that?

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.

Agatha Christie

The weapon lay on the floor - a bronze figure about two feet high, the base of it stained and wet. Mr. Satterthwaite bent over it curiously. "A Venus," he said softly. "So he was struck down by Venus." He found food for poetic meditation in the thought.

Evidence Against Him or Suspicious Circumstances: Pipe-cleaner.

Agatha Christie

Her sprits rose. In moderation Jane did not object to crime. The papers had been full lately of the exploits of various girl bandits. Jane had seriously thought of becoming one if all else failed.

The shrill note of a bell made them both jump. "That's the front door," said Giles. "Enter - a murderer," he added facetiously.

A crime can be a work of art. A detective can be an artist.

Ulick Norman Owen.

Julius tapped his revolver.

men like your Hercule Poirot don't have to look for crime—it comes to them.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend," observed Poirot philosophically.

Do I understand you to assert that women are not subject to homicidal mania?

He was also a stupid man—that is why he is dead.

Brott kan föda romantik.

Agatha Christie

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

No Woolworth handkerchiefs," reported Race, rapidly replacing the contents of a drawer.

Agatha Christie

And the victim, mademoiselle, is very often the clue to the mystery." Miss Reilly said: "That's rather clever of you, M. Poirot. It's certainly true that if ever a woman deserved to be murdered Mrs. Leidner was that woman!