Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 4

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

I am all that there is of the most real.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.