Agatha Christie citations

“Les affaires - les affaires"-M. Bauc”

“Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“Very few of us are what we seem.”

“Time is the best killer.”

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

“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.”

“Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.”

“Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.”

“The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.”

“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”

“In the midst of life, we are in death.”

“Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”

“If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, they usually admit it — often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.”

“I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea….”

“I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”

“One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.”

“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”

“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”

“Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”

“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”

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

“The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.”

“I’m used to that. It often seems to me that’s all detective work is — wiping out your false starts and beginning again.”

“"Nothing", I said sadly. "They are two delightful women!" "And neither of them is for you?" finished Poirot. "Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows?"”

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