Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 15

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'

Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!