Agatha Christie Quotes

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'That is difficult to say exactly,' said Mr. Kirkwood, enjoying, like all lawyers, making the reply to a simple question difficult.

Agatha Christie
If you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

Agatha Christie
She broke off, unable to find words to frame her struggling thoughts. What life would be with Hori, she did not know. In spite of his gentleness, in spite of his love for her, he would remain in some respects incalculable and incomprehensible. They would share moments of great beauty and richness together - but what of their common daily life?

Agatha Christie
There is no such thing as muddle — obscurity, yes — but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain.

Agatha Christie
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...

Agatha Christie
I always feel that the young doctors are only too anxious to experiment. After they've whipped out all our teeth, and administered quantities of very peculiar glands, and removed bits of our insides, they then confess that nothing can be done for us. I really prefer the old-fashioned remedy of big black bottles of medicine. After all, one can always pour those down the sink.

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

Agatha Christie
I have always been so sure — too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."
Hercule Poirot speaking

Agatha Christie
I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.

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

Agatha Christie
I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

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There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings, said Simon stolidly.
Poirot said dryly:
Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!

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The remark attributed to Mrs. [Agatha] Christie that 'the older you get, the more interesting you become to an archaeologist,' was the creation of some pundit whose neck Mrs. Christie would be glad to wring if he would care to identify himself - she neither made the remark nor does she consider it particularly complimentary or amusing.

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It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

Agatha Christie
Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

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There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Agatha Christie
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Agatha Christie