Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
fiction is founded on truth…unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself… — 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
“Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and… — 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
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
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
Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
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 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
Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is. — 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
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the… — 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
