Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Ladies and Gentlemen! Silence please!" Every one was startled. They looked round-at each other, at the walls. Who was speaking? The Voice… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased... There is a great charity always to the dead.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way."… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree.… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I heard what you said just now to my… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The Kiddles had come and conquered. Life was stronger than death.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Death was temporary, lasting only long enough to provoke a laugh from kids in pajamas sitting cross-legged in front of the TV… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood; Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-read heath, The red-ribb'd… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Although everyone knows death comes in the end, you have this stupid mind which keeps on saying, 'But I won't die today… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
