Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 6

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.