Quotes by Agatha Christie

About Agatha Christie:

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections that she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigative work of such characters as Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Parker Pyne, Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap. In 1971 she was made a Dame for her contribution to literature.
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A statesman in these days has a difficult task. He has to pursue the policy he deems advantageous to his country, but he has at the same time to recognize the force of popular feeling. Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddleheaded, and emin...

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Poirot said "you will find,M.le docteur,if you have much to do with cases of this kind,that they all resemble each other in one thing." "what is that?" I asked curiously "everyone concerned in them has something to hide

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Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

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... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

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Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once.

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Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

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A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men.

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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

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You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

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A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

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But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now whenever that young man looked he looked like a sheep I take back all is this morning. It is genuine.

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Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean." "Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a go...

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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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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.

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Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes adn inclinations is the most important consideration.

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The young people think that the old people are fools; but the old people know that the young people are fools!

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Author Bio

  • NameAgatha Christie
  • DescriptionEnglish mystery and detective writer
  • AliasesAgatha Mary Clarissa Christie
  • BornSeptember 15, 1890
  • DiedJanuary 12, 1976
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Nurse; Writer; Novelist
  • WorksHercule Poirot; Murder In Mesopotamia; Murder In The Mews
  • AwardsDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire