Agatha Christie Quotes

• No innocent person ever has an alibi.

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  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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• I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

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  "Murder International: Including So Many Steps to Death Death Comes as the End Evil Under the Sun".

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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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  Men   Littles  

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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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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• 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

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  Writing  

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• One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

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  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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  Agatha Christie (1978). “The mousetrap, & other plays”, Putnam Adult

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• You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

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• I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

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  People  

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.” “I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.” Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes

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  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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

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  People  

  Agatha Christie (2003). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Detective Story”, p.124, Modern Library

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

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  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage”

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

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  New York   Writing   Cities  

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Men  

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Secret Adversary (Diversion Classics)”, p.71, Diversion Books

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• Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

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  Agatha Christie (2010). “Crooked House”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

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  People  

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Taken at the flood”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

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• Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

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  Doe  

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Mysterious Mr Quin”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• 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.

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  Writing  

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• The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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  Inspirational   Life   Impossible  

  "No one should condescend to Agatha Christie - she's a genius" by Sophie Hannah, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2015.

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• One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

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  Littles  

  "Masterpieces of murder".

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• there is evil everywhere under the sun.

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  Agatha Christie (2010). “Evil Under the Sun (Poirot)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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

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  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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• I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

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  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

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  Agatha Christie (1931). “The man in the brown suit”

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• The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

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  Thinking   People  

  Agatha Christie (1967). “Murder in our midst”

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• One does what one can, not what one cannot.

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  Life   Doe  

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

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  "Five complete Hercule Poirot novels".

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• The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

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  Writing  

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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