Ifs Quotes by Agatha Christie

And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

— Agatha Christie

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

— Agatha Christie

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

— Agatha Christie

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

— Agatha Christie

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

— Agatha Christie

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

— Agatha Christie

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

— Agatha Christie

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

— Agatha Christie

Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate…

— Agatha Christie

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the…

— Agatha Christie

... 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

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

— Agatha Christie

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go…

— Agatha Christie

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

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

And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found…

— Agatha Christie

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

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

I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there…

— Agatha Christie

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

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

— Agatha Christie