Agatha Christie: Goodness

Agatha Christie was English mystery and detective writer. Explore interesting quotes on goodness.
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“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

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

Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

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

Agatha Christie book The Burden

The Burden (1956)

“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.”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“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.

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

Agatha Christie book The Man in the Brown Suit

Source: The Man in the Brown Suit

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

Agatha Christie book Evil Under the Sun

Source: Evil Under the Sun

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

Agatha Christie book They Do It with Mirrors

Source: They Do It with Mirrors

“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.”

Agatha Christie book Lord Edgware Dies

Source: Lord Edgware Dies

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

Agatha Christie

“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…”

Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot
Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)

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

Agatha Christie book The Pale Horse

The Pale Horse (1961)

“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.”

Agatha Christie

Source: Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975), chapter 7

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

Agatha Christie book Third Girl

Third Girl (1966)

“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)

“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)

“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)