Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 9

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

The rottenness comes from within.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.