Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “When a man’s neck’s in danger, he doesn’t stop to think too much about sentiment.”

— Agatha Christie

202. “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.”

— Agatha Christie

203. “I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

205. “Life is really like a ship–the interior of a ship, that is. It has watertight compartments. You emerge from one, seal and bolt the doors, and find yourself in another. My life from the day we left Southampton to the day we returned to England was one such compartment. Ever since that I have felt the same about travel. You step from one life into another. You are yourself, but a different self. The new self is untrammelled by all the hundreds of spiders’ webs and filaments.”

— Agatha Christie

206. “Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.”

— Agatha Christie

207. “I have learned to save myself useless emotion.”

— Agatha Christie

208. “What was this passion that attacked women for knitting under the most unpropitious conditions? A woman did not look her best knitting; the absorption, the glassy eyes, the restless, busy fingers! One needed the agility of a wild cat, and the will-power of a Napoleon to manage to knit in a crowded tube, but women managed it! If they succeeded in obtaining a seat, out came a miserable little strip of shrimp pink and click, click went the pins!”

— Agatha Christie

209. “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

210. “Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.”

— Agatha Christie

211. “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.”

— Agatha Christie

212. “I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.”

— Agatha Christie

213. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

217. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

220. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

226. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

229. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

233. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

235. “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

236. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

240. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

243. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

245. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

249. “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

250. “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