When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out! — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“They say all the world loves a lover—apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth!” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot) — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“No," said Tuppence thoughtfully, "he didn't believe it. That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living. — 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
It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“In case, I would prefer to say, that some circumstances should strike me in a different light to the one in which… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes- two people. One is le… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“We will make them tell us what it is," said Poirot. "Third degree?" said Colonel Carbury. "No." Poirot shook his head. "Just… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact it wouldn’t be safe to tell any man the truth about his wife! Funnily enough, I’d trust… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“What do you expect Cust to tell you?" Hercule Poirot smiled. "A lie," he said. "And by it, I shall know the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away … — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“There just didn’t seem anyone else who could have done it. I thought perhaps he’d gone a little mad.” “Did he ever… — 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
