Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 7

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

... obsessions are always dangerous.

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

One does what one can, not what one cannot.