Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”

— Agatha Christie

102. “Yes,” said Miss Marple. “The children of Lucifer are often beautiful – And as we know, they flourish like the green bay tree.”

— Agatha Christie

103. “There was something magical about an island – the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world – an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return. He thought: “I’m leaving my ordinary life behind me.” And, smiling to himself, he began to make plans, fantastic plans for the future. He was still smiling when he walked up the rock-cut steps. In.”

— Agatha Christie

104. “Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.”

— Agatha Christie

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105. “Ulick Norman Owen – Una Nancy Owen – each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!”

— Agatha Christie

106. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

109. “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

110. “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

111. “Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have come to see gains that cannot be reckoned in terms of wealth, and losses that are more damaging than loss of a crop... I look at the River and I see the lifeblood of Egypt that has existed before we lived and that will exist after we die... Life and death, Renisenb, are not of such great account.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

113. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

116. “One cannot be interested in crime without being interested in psychology. It is not the mere act of killing, it is what lies behind it that appeals to the expert.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

118. “Los viejos pecados tienen largas sombras.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

125. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

127. “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

128. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

130. “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

131. “Life is only one of the Great Illusions.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

135. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

137. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

139. “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

140. “Old sins have long shadows.”

— Agatha Christie

141. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

145. “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

146. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

148. “The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small –.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie