Agatha Christie

“When youth begins to pass, fun isn't fun any longer.”

— Agatha Christie

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

— Agatha Christie

“The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

“It is not the past that matters,but the future”

— Agatha Christie

“You seem to know a hell of a lot about everything, you little foreign cock duck.”

— Agatha Christie

“Justice is, after all, in the hands of men and men are fallible.”

— Agatha Christie

“Arrange your ideas. Be methodical. Be orderly. There is the secret of success.”

— Agatha Christie

“dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But nobody relishes the…

— Agatha Christie

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a…

— Agatha Christie

“Is it so unusual for a man to bring home a concubine?" "Not at all unusual. Men are usually fools.”

— Agatha Christie

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

— Agatha Christie

“This morning Miss Marple lay thinking soberly and constructively of murder, and what, if her suspicions were correct, she could do about…

— Agatha Christie

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

— Agatha Christie

“You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they…

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

“the horror of sitting at a tea table, looking across at my best loved friend, and suddenly realising that the person sitting…

— Agatha Christie

“Really, my friend! But I will not sit back and say ‘le bon Dieu has arranged everything, I will not interfere.’ Because…

— Agatha Christie

“Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based always, always on the…

— Agatha Christie

“I don’t know, I’m sure,” said Mrs. Burch. She had said that three times already. Her natural distrust of foreign-looking gentlemen with…

— Agatha Christie

“What is a secretary to a millionaire? Nine times out of ten it is a young man who likes living soft. A…

— Agatha Christie

“It was a cheap school, you know, and the teachers weren't very good. They could never answer questions properly." "Very few teachers…

— Agatha Christie

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You…

— Agatha Christie

“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

“I suppose next time I come home I shall find you wearing false moustaches—or are you doing so now?' Poirot winced. His…

— Agatha Christie

“A murderer is always a gambler. And, like many gamblers, a murderer often does not know when to stop. With each crime…

— Agatha Christie

“when I was the proud owner of eight houses. I had become addicted to finding broken-down, slummy houses in London and making…

— Agatha Christie

“Your son was accused of a crime he did not commit, was tried for it, condemned—and died in prison. Justice has come…

— Agatha Christie

“One does feel proud to belong to the human race when one sees the wonderful things human beings have fashioned with their…

— Agatha Christie

“We had a lazy voyage, stopping at Fiji and other islands, and finally arrived at Honolulu. It was far more sophisticated than…

— Agatha Christie

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is…

— Agatha Christie

“One last thing I remember which was like a portent of things to come. We had been having tea in Dr Jordan’s…

— Agatha Christie

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

— Agatha Christie

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

— Agatha Christie

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

— Agatha Christie

“...the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...”

— Agatha Christie

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

— Agatha Christie

“The trouble is, that this sort of things once it starts, grows.”

— Agatha Christie

“This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face.”

— Agatha Christie