If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it! — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot) — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found… — 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
