Agatha Christie

“All the same, lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily poisoned their husbands.”

— Agatha Christie

“My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I…

— Agatha Christie

“You seem to know a hell of a lot about everything, you little foreign cock duck.”

— Agatha Christie

“When I know what the murderer is like, I shall be able to find out who he is.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

“And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?”

— Agatha Christie

“Does nothing frighten you, Anne Beddingfeld?” “Oh, yes,” I said, with an assumption of coolness I was far from feeling. “Wasps, sarcastic…

— Agatha Christie

“DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL.”

— Agatha Christie

“What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.”

— Agatha Christie

a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an…

— Agatha Christie

“They fear me, Hastings; the criminals of your England they fear me! When the cat is there, the little mice, they come…

— Agatha Christie

I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there…

— Agatha Christie

“I was, like everyone else who wrote books or read them, against the criminal and for the innocent victim. There was one…

— Agatha Christie

“Men get killed and nobody minds.”

— Agatha Christie

“How little you might know of a person after living in the same house with them!”

— Agatha Christie

“Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.”…

— Agatha Christie

“My boy, I know what I’m talking about. Mind you, I’m not saying marriage doesn’t come hard on a fellow at first.…

— Agatha Christie

“Twenty minutes’ work after breakfast every morning keeps the flag going to perfection. You have nothing to complain of, have you?” “Your”

— Agatha Christie

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

— Agatha Christie

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you…

— Agatha Christie

I am all that there is of the most real.

— Agatha Christie

“Yes, I like that—loyalty, I mean. It’s out of fashion nowadays. She’s an odd character, that girl—proud, reserved, stubborn, and terribly warm-hearted…

— Agatha Christie

“I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes to sleep all winter and…

— Agatha Christie

I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express…

— Agatha Christie

“En voiture, Monsieur,’ said the Wagon Lit conductor.”

— Agatha Christie