Quotes by Agatha Christie

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say its mercenary of me, but there it is

If you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.

Everything is possible, isnt it? The world soon teaches one that!

... suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of ones own and then, of course, after a time, one wouldnt be able to get back...

This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist.

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though shes not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, shes always very pleasant and all that, but one never seems to get to know her better.Miss Marple agreed thoughtfully. One never knows what she is thinking.Perhaps that is just as well.I beg your pardon?Oh nothing really, only that Ive always had the feeling that perhaps her thoughts might be rather disconcerting.

The popular view 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.

More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.

Childs evidence is always the best evidence there is. Id rely on it every time. No good in court, of course. Children cant stand being asked direct questions. They mumble or else look idiotic and say they dont know. Theyre at their best when theyre showing off.

Theyre like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then theyre quite happy again for a bit.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

Youve a pretty good nerve, said Ratchett. Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?It will not.If youre holding out for more, you wont get it. I know what a things worth to me.I, also M. Ratchett.Whats wrong with my proposition?Poirot rose. If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett, he said.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.

Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. Thats all prehistoric.

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.

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a thousand, can make for herself a name and position as you have done.