“Don’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Murder—the wish to do murder—is something quite different. It—how shall I say?—it defies God.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It has just happened that I have found myself in the vicinity of murder rather more often than would seem normal.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“This morning Miss Marple lay thinking soberly and constructively of murder, and what, if her suspicions were correct, she could do about… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Poirot said "you will find,M.le docteur,if you have much to do with cases of this kind,that they all resemble each other in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In my experience, bossy women seldom get themselves murdered. I can't think why not. When you come to think of it, it's… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Blowpipes and darts——heathen, I call it,” said Mrs. Mitchell. “You are right,” said Poirot, addressing her with a flattering air of being… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let’s review the menu.… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“She breathed an enormous sigh, looked at Poirot, Looked away, and suddenly blurted out, "You're too old. Nobody told me you were… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Just look, Letty.” Miss Blacklock looked. Her eyebrows went up. She threw a quick scrutinizing glance round the table. Then she read… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The Roar of the engine penetrated through Bertram's Hotel from the street outside. Colonel Luscombe perceived that Ladislaus Malinowski was one of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“You’re quite right,” said MacMaster. “You’re putting your finger on the thing that matters. If you think it over, you know, that’s… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“there isn't such a thing as a murderer who commits crimes at random. Either he removes people who stand (however insignificantly) in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“A child says ‘Thank God for my good dinner’. What can I say at seventy-five? ‘Thank God for my good life, and for all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Either her dream had taken a very odd turn or else - or else Mary had really rushed into the room and had said… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“The old gentleman refuses to have the telephone which he regards as a device of the devil, and on a par with radio, television,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“That’s how they do it, these girls! Othello charmed Desdemona by telling her stories, but, oh, didn’t Desdemona charm Othello by the way she… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
