Detective Quote by Agatha Christie Download Open image ““The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.”” — Agatha Christie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detective Investigation Truth
“The truth sounds so obvious when it comes from someone who it not trying to hide it.” — Gerry Burnie Copy Share Image
“Truth has a way of appearing no matter how hard you attempt to hide it.” — Deborah Brodie Copy Share Image
“That's the trouble with gathering truth. It's never neat and tidy...” — Emma Jane Holloway Copy Share Image
“I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.” — William J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Truth is a well we all draw from and slowly poison, as we use it in ways for which it was never intended.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“What good is knowing the truth, if you hide it? If you speak it to no one?” — Elizabeth C. Mock Copy Share Image
“The truth isn't always nice. It isn't always small enough to absorb at once. Sometimes the truth washes over you and threatens to take… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I'm always truthful as well. So full of truth, in fact, that sometimes it squeezes the lies right out my lips. There isn't a… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
“When I saw the Twilight movies I thought being a Vampyre was so romantic. When my friends decided to be Vampyres it was so… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
“Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.” — William Kely McClung Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. — Chelsea Cain 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
Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in… — Mark Valley Copy Share Image
I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
“Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.” — Jane Sunday Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and… — James Marsh Copy Share Image
