Agatha Christie: Quotes about people

Agatha Christie was English mystery and detective writer. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”

Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage

Source: Murder at the Vicarage

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

Agatha Christie

Source: An Autobiography

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

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

Agatha Christie book The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

Source: The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

“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

“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

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

Agatha Christie

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

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

Agatha Christie

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

Agatha Christie Elephants Can Remember

Source: Elephants Can Remember

“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

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

Agatha Christie book After the Funeral

Source: After the Funeral (1953)
Context: There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. 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.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the links

Source: The Murder on the Links

“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.”

Agatha Christie

“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”

Agatha Christie book Destination Unknown

Source: Destination Unknown

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

Agatha Christie

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

Agatha Christie book A Caribbean Mystery

Miss Marple
A Caribbean Mystery (1964)

“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.”

Agatha Christie book N or M?

N or M? (1941)

“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…”

Agatha Christie book Endless Night

Michael Rogers (the narrator)
Endless Night (1967)

“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.”

Agatha Christie book Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile (1937)