But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“His mind, shrinking from reality, ran for safety along these unimportant details.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman-probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Précisément! The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Of course, if you’ve made up your mind about it, you’ll find an answer to everything.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“you have the beautiful and unsuspicious mind. Years do not change that in you! You perceive a fact and mention the solution… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It's often when you're talking over things that you seem to see your way clear. Your mind gets made up for you… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Oh, the glorious relief, the wonderful relief when somebody knows what's in your mind and tells it to you so that you… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“And has it ever occurred to you, Miss Griffith, that you would probably not be able to take a good express train… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“When he passed me in the restaurant," he said at last, "I had a curious impression. It was as though a wild… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“You may say that I had gone to ask Megan to marry me in an absurdly complacent frame of mind and that… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Surely,” said Miss Marple, aghast at an idea that had come into her mind, “there can’t be a bond of ruthlessness between… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“IF anybody had been there to observe the gentle-looking elderly lady who stood meditatively on the loggia outside her bungalow, they would… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“only had to write the play that I was already thinking of. Plays are much easier to write than books, because you… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Handsome, strong, gay ... She felt again the thro and lilt of her blood. She had loved Kameni in that moment. She… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“In a well-balanced, reasoning mind there is no such thing as an intuition - an inspired guess! You can guess, of course… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had… — 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
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your… — 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
