Said Quotes by Agatha Christie

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

— Agatha Christie

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

— Agatha Christie

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

— Agatha Christie

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

— Agatha Christie

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

— Agatha Christie

Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters.

— Agatha Christie

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

— Agatha Christie

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is!…

— Agatha Christie

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be…

— Agatha Christie

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask…

— Agatha Christie

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when…

— Agatha Christie

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious…

— Agatha Christie

Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints…

— Agatha Christie

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more,…

— Agatha Christie

“It's all very well to talk like that,” said Mr. Rafiel. “We, you say? What do you think I can do about…

— Agatha Christie

And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree.…

— Agatha Christie

Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even…

— 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

Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when…

— Agatha Christie

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he…

— Agatha Christie

I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you…

— Agatha Christie

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda,…

— Agatha Christie

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You…

— Agatha Christie