Crime Quotes by Agatha Christie

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime.”

— Agatha Christie

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

— Agatha Christie

“Romance can be a by-product of crime.”

— Agatha Christie

“His interest lay wholly in the crime—swooning middle-aged ladies did not interest him at all.”

— Agatha Christie

“If my Rolls-Royce splashes you with mud as you’re waiting for a bus, you’ll know that I’ve taken to crime.”

— Agatha Christie

Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth

— Agatha Christie

“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

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another”

— Agatha Christie

“It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster,…

— Agatha Christie

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your…

— Agatha Christie

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd…

— Agatha Christie

“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

Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face…

— Agatha Christie

“It's all very well to talk like that,” said Mr. Rafiel. “We, you say? What do you think I can do about…

— Agatha Christie

“If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let’s review the menu.…

— Agatha Christie

“I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The  story begins long before that—years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.”

— Agatha Christie

“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

“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

“This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in…

— Agatha Christie

“It was An­tho­ny Marston who dis­agreed with the ma­jor­ity. 'A bit un­sport­ing, what?' he said. 'Ought to fer­ret out the mys­tery be­fore…

— Agatha Christie