Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.”

— Agatha Christie

202. “When a man’s neck’s in danger, he doesn’t stop to think too much about sentiment.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

204. “Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.”

— Agatha Christie

205. “The past is the father of the present.”

— Agatha Christie

206. “Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine.”

— Agatha Christie

207. “Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.”

— Agatha Christie

208. “I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.”

— Agatha Christie

209. “Never worry about what you say to a man. They’re so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it’s unflattering.”

— Agatha Christie

210. “The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.”

— Agatha Christie

211. “I’ve often noticed that when coincidences start happening they go on happening in the most extraordinary way. I dare say it’s some natural law that we haven’t found out.”

— Agatha Christie

212. “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.”

— Agatha Christie

213. “Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?”

— Agatha Christie

214. “All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages. For three days these people, these strangers to one another, are brought together. They sleep and eat under one roof, they cannot get away from each other. At the end of three days they part, they go their several ways, never, perhaps, to see each other again.”

— Agatha Christie

215. “Hercule Poirot’s methods are his own. Order and method, and ‘the little gray cells’.”

— Agatha Christie

216. “Profesi suami yang paling baik bagi wanita adalah arkeolog. Karena semakin tua si wanita, suami akan semakin tertarik kepadanya.”

— Agatha Christie

217. “Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”

— Agatha Christie

218. “Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive – for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard’s sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong’s mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff’s Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.”

— Agatha Christie

219. “Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money – or the lack of it.”

— Agatha Christie

220. “There are crimes that cannot be brought home to their perpetrators. Instance the Rogerses’. Another instance, old Wargrave, who committed his murder strictly within the law.”

— Agatha Christie

221. “It’s only in books people carry revolvers around as a matter of course.”

— Agatha Christie

222. “Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man’s to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide. A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.”

— Agatha Christie

223. “Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.”

— Agatha Christie

224. “Les femmes,” generalized Poirot. “They are marvellous! They invent haphazard – and by miracle they are right. Not that it is that, really. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together – and they call the result intuition.”

— Agatha Christie

225. “Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”

— Agatha Christie

226. “Evil is not something superhuman, it’s something less than human.”

— Agatha Christie

227. “If there were only any peace in Egypt I should like it better,” said Mrs. Allerton. “But you can never be alone anywhere. Someone is always pestering you for money, or offering you donkeys, or beads, or expeditions to native villages, or duck shooting.”

— Agatha Christie

228. “All Egypt is obsessed with death! And do you know why, Renisenb? Because we have eyes in our bodies, but none in our minds. We cannot conceive of a life other than this one – of a life after death. We can visualize only a continuation of what we know. We have no real belief in a God.”

— Agatha Christie

229. “I am all that there is of the most real.”

— Agatha Christie

230. “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.”

— Agatha Christie

231. “It’s so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”

— Agatha Christie

232. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

234. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”

— Agatha Christie

235. “Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.”

— Agatha Christie

236. “I think, myself, that one’s memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.”

— Agatha Christie

237. “Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

239. “There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn’t really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We’re so busy punishing ourselves.”

— Agatha Christie

240. “There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.”

— Agatha Christie

241. “The only thing I shall want for a rainy day will be my umbrella.”

— Agatha Christie

242. “We’re all mad, dear lady,” he said as he ushered her in through the door. “That’s the secret of existence. We’re all a little mad.”

— Agatha Christie

243. “Lo imposible no puede haber sucedido; por tanto, lo imposible tiene que ser posible, a pesar de las apariencias.”

— Agatha Christie

244. “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.”

— Agatha Christie

245. “Every new development that arises is like the shake you give to a kaleidoscope – the thing changes entirely in aspect.”

— Agatha Christie

246. “There’s nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.”

— Agatha Christie

247. “From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill...”

— Agatha Christie

248. “Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”

— Agatha Christie

249. “When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”

— Agatha Christie

250. “An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”

— Agatha Christie