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“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”

Agatha Christie

“Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time theto kill-though not theto kill.”

Agatha Christie Curtain

Source: Curtain

“I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog.”

Agatha Christie book Peril at End House

Hercule Poirot
Peril at End House (1932)
Context: I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around — seeking always something that is not very nice.

“But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”

Agatha Christie And Then There Were None

Source: And Then There Were None

“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.”

Agatha Christie book The A.B.C. Murders

Source: The A.B.C. Murders

“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

Agatha Christie

Source: An Autobiography

“It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”

Agatha Christie book The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Source: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”

Agatha Christie

Source: An Autobiography

“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”

Agatha Christie

“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?
--Poirot”

Agatha Christie book One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Source: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

“Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.”

Agatha Christie book Partners in Crime

Source: Partners in Crime

“To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.

[author's dedication]”

Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary

Source: The Secret Adversary

“Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.”

Agatha Christie

Source: And Then There Were None: A Mystery Play in Three Acts

“Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.”

Agatha Christie book The Moving Finger

Source: The Moving Finger

“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”

Agatha Christie