Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

254. “I love autumn. It’s so much richer than spring.”

— Agatha Christie

255. “A man in love is a sorry spectacle.”

— Agatha Christie

256. “I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.”

— Agatha Christie

257. “Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minded – face the truth, mademoiselle! Your friend died in the last resort, because she had not the courage to live. We may sympathize with her. We may pity her. But the fact remains – the act was hers – not another.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

259. “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

260. “Do you like sitting here looking out to the sea?” – Vera E. Claythorne.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

262. “I don’t like the idea of your being a governess at the beck and call of tyrannical mother’s and their tiresome brats.”

— Agatha Christie

263. “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

264. “One needs some really good food and drink after all the magnificent blood and gloom of Macbeth. Shakespeare always makes me ravenous.”

— Agatha Christie

265. “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

266. “I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been.”

— Agatha Christie

267. “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

268. “An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

272. “The weather was always the same – fine. No interesting variations. “The many-splendoured weather of an English day,” she.”

— Agatha Christie

273. “There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.”

— Agatha Christie

274. “Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?”

— Agatha Christie

275. “People who can be very good can be very bad too.”

— Agatha Christie

276. “It is a great advantage to be intelligent and not to look it.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

278. “C’est une femme,” said the chef de train again. “Women are like that. When they are enraged they have great strength.” He nodded so sagely that everyone suspected a personal experience of his own.”

— Agatha Christie

279. “If you must be Sherlock Holmes,” she observed, “I’ll get you a nice little syringe and a bottle labelled cocaine, but for God’s sake leave that violin alone.”

— Agatha Christie

280. “Linnet laughed. ‘Why, I haven’t got an enemy in the world.”

— Agatha Christie

281. “I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.”

— Agatha Christie

282. “I always think loyalty’s such a tiresome virtue.”

— Agatha Christie

283. “To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived...”

— Agatha Christie

284. “More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.”

— Agatha Christie

285. “Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,... Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything – all nonsense. Get up with the sun I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and never tie yourself to a time or a date. I could teach people how to live if they would listen to me.”

— Agatha Christie

286. “What’s wrong with my proposition?” Poirot rose. “If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.”

— Agatha Christie

287. “The truth often does sound unconvincing.”

— Agatha Christie

288. “In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony.”

— Agatha Christie

289. “These little grey cells. It is up to them.”

— Agatha Christie

290. “Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there.”

— Agatha Christie

291. “And families now, families who have been separated throughout the year, assemble once more together. Now under these conditions, my friend, you must admit that there will occur a great amount of strain. People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to appear amiable! 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

292. “Edward turned to Miss Marple. “It’s like this, you see. As Uncle Mathew grew older, he got more and more suspicious. He didn’t trust anybody.” “Very wise of him,” said Miss Marple. “The depravity of human nature is unbelievable.”

— Agatha Christie

293. “The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.”

— Agatha Christie

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294. “The trouble with you and me, is that we don’t live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

— Agatha Christie

295. “What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out.”

— Agatha Christie

296. “He chews the gum which I believe is not done in good circles.”

— Agatha Christie

297. “Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.”

— Agatha Christie

298. “But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.”

— Agatha Christie

299. “In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.”

— Agatha Christie

300. “Miss Marple had her breakfast brought to her in bed as usual. Tea, a boiled egg, and a slice of pawpaw.”

— Agatha Christie