Agatha Christie Quotes

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“Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.”

“People who can be very good can be very bad too.”

“To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..”

“What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.”

“No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.”

“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.”

“Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.

-"The Blood-Stained Pavement”

“Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.”

“Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express”

“Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?”

“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.”

“Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.”

“For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away…”

“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

“And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.”

“I like to see an angry Englishman,” said Poirot. “They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.”

“The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.”

“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.”

“The past is the father of the present.”

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

“If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.”

“One must make one's own mistakes”

“I am all that there is of the most real.”

“I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.”

“Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?”

“Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.”

“I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.”

“One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.”

“A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)”

“I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today.

~Jessop”

“The world is full of good people who do bad things!”

“To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.”

“See you, my dear doctor, me, I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.”

“One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”

“Fear, what a strange thing fear was…”

“Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.”

“I congratulate you on having such a unique and beautiful problem.”

“If you've lost, you've lost.”

“You arouse my gastronomical juices, madame.”

“Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?”

“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”

“If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it — none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.”

“Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.”

“We shall not hunt together again, my friend. Our first hunt was here — and our last … They were good days, Yes, they have been good days…”

“Plymouth, Gwenda thought, as she moved forward obediently in the queu for Passports and Customs, was probably not the best of England.”

“I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.”

“The English are very stupid,” said Poirot. “They think that they can deceive anyone but that no one can deceive them.”

“A dog,” said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, “has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.”

“It all came together then, you see — all the various isolated bits — and made a coherent pattern.”