There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“She'd never stopped for a moment wanting me to be different but her wishes were never going to come true.” — 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
“Ah, yes,’ said Poirot. He was reflecting, and not for the first time, that seen from the back, shorts were becoming to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“My dear Mr. Schwartz, you appeared in the nick of time. It might have been a drama on the stage! I am… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespeare is ruined for most… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“and fair hair combed off her face and arranged in a large bun at the back of her neck; a style which… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go… — 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
“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
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
“I suppose next time I come home I shall find you wearing false moustaches—or are you doing so now?' Poirot winced. His… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?" "That is so." "Pity. Pity. You've missed a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He dragged me back - just in time. A tree had crashed down on to the side walk, just missing us. Poirot… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“One doesn't recognize in one's life the really important moments - not until it's too late.” — 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
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill. — 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
“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He went out of the compartment and returned a few moments later with a small spirit stove and a pair of curling… — 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
