Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller) — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their… — 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
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“A man doesn't want to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperament. I have never seen, myself,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming.… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in… — 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
She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious. — 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
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“... Good gracious, Jerry, you'll probably have to marry the girl.' Joanna was half serious, half laughing. It was at that moment… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general… — 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
