Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.”

— Agatha Christie

102. “Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.”

— Agatha Christie

103. “Men don’t understand how their mannerisms can get on women’s nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.”

— Agatha Christie

104. “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.”

— Agatha Christie

105. “There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c’est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!”

— Agatha Christie

106. “Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don’t realise it. – Miss Marple.”

— Agatha Christie

107. “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.”

— Agatha Christie

108. “One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”

— Agatha Christie

109. “Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.”

— Agatha Christie

110. “It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”

— Agatha Christie

111. “Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.”

— Agatha Christie

112. “What a newspaper prints is news – but not always truth!”

— Agatha Christie

113. “Los viejos pecados tienen largas sombras.”

— Agatha Christie

114. “Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains – if you’ve got any. And, if necessary – act.”

— Agatha Christie

115. “Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.”

— Agatha Christie

116. “Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.”

— Agatha Christie

117. “If the foundations are rotten – everything’s rotten.”

— Agatha Christie

118. “I’m going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He’s going to marry and stick to me.”

— Agatha Christie

119. “It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”

— Agatha Christie

120. “There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”

— Agatha Christie

121. “There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.”

— Agatha Christie

122. “I think people more often kill those they love, than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.”

— Agatha Christie

123. “The urge to write one’s autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.”

— Agatha Christie

124. “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.”

— Agatha Christie

125. “I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.”

— Agatha Christie

126. “And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?”

— Agatha Christie

127. “The darkest day, lived till tomorrow, will have passed away?”

— Agatha Christie

128. “Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.”

— Agatha Christie

129. “The rain was pouring down again. The wind came in fitful gusts. The depressing sound of the pattering rain nearly drove them mad. By.”

— Agatha Christie

130. “It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.”

— Agatha Christie

131. “That is the worst of Poirot. Order and Method are his gods. He goes so far as to attribute all his success to them.”

— Agatha Christie

132. “Hercule Poirot addressed himself to the task of keeping his moustaches out of the soup.”

— Agatha Christie

133. “Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can’t they, unless they kill you while they’re trying to cure you.”

— Agatha Christie

134. “One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine can’t see them there’s no reason to doubt that the moons of Jupiter exist, and certainly no reason for calling the thousandth man a lunatic.”

— Agatha Christie

135. “I will not look through keyholes,” I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. “Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

137. “Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumours go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them.”

— Agatha Christie

138. “One does see so much evil in a village,′ murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.”

— Agatha Christie

139. “If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn’t leave you too much over for action.”

— Agatha Christie

140. “Forewarned is forearmed.”

— Agatha Christie

141. “So many things are difficult,” said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often.”

— Agatha Christie

142. “Oude zonden hebben lange schaduwen.”

— Agatha Christie

143. “Only cats and witches walk in the dark.”

— Agatha Christie

144. “Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle appealing manner- Miss Wetherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. Of the two Miss Marple is the more dangerous.”

— Agatha Christie

145. “There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.”

— Agatha Christie

146. “Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.”

— Agatha Christie

147. “In the second place the seat next to the driving seat was encumbered by several maps, a handbag, three novels, and a large bag of apples. Mrs. Oliver was partial to apples and has indeed been known to eat as many as five pounds straight off while composing the complicated plot of The Death in the Drain Pipe, coming to herself with a start and an incipient stomach-ache an hour and ten minutes after she was due at an important luncheon party given in her honor.”

— Agatha Christie

148. “Look at the moon up there. You see her very plainly, don’t you? She’s very real. But if the sun were to shine you wouldn’t be able to see her at all. It was rather like that. I was the moon... When the sun came out, Simon couldn’t see me anymore... He was dazzled. He couldn’t see anything but the sun – Linnet.”

— Agatha Christie

149. “I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.”

— Agatha Christie

150. “Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.”

— Agatha Christie