Agatha Christie: Goodness

“It was abominable — wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.”

“Children and one’s social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for them.”

“You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”

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

“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.”

“Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.”

“To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.”

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

“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.”

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

“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…”

“How convenient if you could ring up Harrods and say ‘Please send along two good murderers, will you?”

“I aroused Judith’s contempt by asking what good all this was likely to do to mankind? There is no question that annoys your true scientist more.”

“The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”