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“I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea….”

Agatha Christie And Then There Were None

Source: And Then There Were None

Life , Idea

“I’m used to that. It often seems to me that’s all detective work is — wiping out your false starts and beginning again.”

Agatha Christie book Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile (1937)

Falseness

“It is really a 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 book The Man in the Brown Suit

Source: The Man in the Brown Suit

Life , Women , Men

“I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”

Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage

Source: Murder at the Vicarage

World

“Time is the best killer.”

Agatha Christie
Time

“"Nothing", I said sadly. "They are two delightful women!" "And neither of them is for you?" finished Poirot. "Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows?"”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

Women

“The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot
Source: Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

Appearance

“Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.”

Agatha Christie book Cat Among the Pigeons

Source: Cat Among the Pigeons

“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”

Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage

Source: Murder at the Vicarage

People , Fools , Thinking

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”

Agatha Christie

Source: An Autobiography

love , Cute , Romantic , Valentine's Day

“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”

Agatha Christie book Peril at End House

Source: Peril at End House

Exercises , Thinking

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

Agatha Christie book The Hound of Death

Source: The Hound of Death

Mother's Day , For Mother , Love , World

“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”

Agatha Christie

Christie denied having made this remark, which had been attributed to her by her second husband Sir Max Mallowan in a news report (9 March 1954); according to Nigel Dennis, "Genteel Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder", Life, Volume 40, N° 20, 14 May 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=p0wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102, she was quoting "a witty wife"; Quote Investigator reports on "An Archaeologist Is the Best Husband a Woman Can Have" as of uncertain origin. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/12/husband/
Disputed
Variant: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.”

Agatha Christie

Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)
Context: I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what I have done is justified or not justified. No — I do not know. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands... But on the other hand, I am the law! As a young man in the Belgian police force I shot down a desperate criminal who sat on a roof and fired at people below. In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.

Law