Agatha Christie: Quotes about people

“It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.”

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

“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

[Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories. ]”

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

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

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

“People should be interested in books, not their authors.”

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

“She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.”

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

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

“Two people rarely see the same thing.”

“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.”

“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!”

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

“Is it coding — or code breaking? Is it like Deborah’s job? Do be careful, Tommy, people go queer doing that and can’t sleep and walk about all night groaning and repeating 978345286 or something like that and finally have nervous breakdowns and go into homes.”

“In my end is my beginning — that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think…”

“It’s so dreadfully easy — killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn’t matter… That it’s only you that matters! It’s dangerous — that.”