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“Oh, dear, it's quite true what Dr. Reilly said. How does one stop writing? If I could find a really good telling phrase… Like the one M. Poirot used. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate… Something like that.”

Agatha Christie book Murder in Mesopotamia

Amy Leatheran
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)

“These little things are very significant.”

Agatha Christie book Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder (1976)

“Flattery, in Tuppence’s opinion, should always be laid on with a trowel where a man is concerned.”

Agatha Christie book N or M?

N or M? (1941)

“Truth of it is,’ said Commander Haydock, steering rather erratically round a one-way island and narrowly missing collision with a large van, ‘when the beggars are right, one remembers it, and when they’re wrong you forget it.”

Agatha Christie book N or M?

N or M? (1941)

“John, forgive me… for what I can't help doing.”

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Henrietta Savernake
The Hollow (1946)

“An Englishman thinks first of his work — his job, he calls it — and then of his sport, and last — a good way last — of his wife.”

Agatha Christie book Death in the Clouds

Death in the Clouds (1935)

“It would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons.”

Agatha Christie book Dead Man's Folly

Dead Man's Folly (1956)

“I can imagine anything! That's the trouble with me. I can imagine things now — this minute. I could even make them sound all right, but of course none of them would be true.”

Agatha Christie book Dead Man's Folly

Ariadne Oliver
Dead Man's Folly (1956)

“Précisément! The body — the cage — is everything of the most respectable — but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“"I saw a particular personage and I threatened him — yes, Mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, threatened him."
"With the police?"
"No," said Poirot drily, "With the Press — a much more deadly weapon."”

Agatha Christie book The Mystery of the Blue Train

The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)

“Tout de même, it is not necessary that he should be killed on the Orient Express. There are other places.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“Men are foolish, are they not, Mademoiselle? To eat, to drink, to breathe the good air, it is a very pleasant thing, Mademoiselle. One is foolish to leave all that simply because one has no money — or because the heart aches. L´amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?”

Agatha Christie book The Mystery of the Blue Train

Hercule Poirot
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)

“Exactly! It is absurd — improbable — it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American — here in Paris! A nasal voice — the chewing gum — the little goatee — the horned-rimmed spectacles — all the appurtenances of the stage American…”

Agatha Christie book Death in the Clouds

Death in the Clouds (1935)

“Let us think only of the good days that are to come.”

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(1945)

“It’s so dreadfully easy — killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn’t matter… That it’s only you that matters! It’s dangerous — that.”

Agatha Christie book Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile (1937)

“The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist.”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Captain Arthur Hastings, first paragraph
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“It merely confirmed in him his long-held belief that you should never believe anything anyone said without first checking it. Suspect everybody, had been for many years, if not his whole life, one of his first axioms.”

Agatha Christie book Third Girl

Third Girl (1966)