Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”

— Agatha Christie

252. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

254. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

259. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

263. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

267. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

270. “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

271. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

273. “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

274. “The truth often does sound unconvincing.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

277. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

280. “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

281. “Marriage, especially at my age, is not to be undertaken without full–er–consideration. Equality of birth, similarity of tastes, general suitability, and the same religious creed–all these things are necessary and the pros and cons have to be weighed and considered.”

— Agatha Christie

282. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

285. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

288. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

290. “Yes, I like that – loyalty, I mean. It’s out of fashion nowadays. She’s an odd character, that girl – proud, reserved, stubborn, and terribly warm-hearted underneath, I fancy.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

292. “Your conclusions are, I think, justified,” he said. “Ulick Norman Owen! In Miss Brent’s letter, though the signature of the surname is a mere scrawl the Christian names are reasonably clear-Una Nancy -in either case, you notice, the same initials. Ulick Norman OwenUna Nancy Owen-each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

294. “There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

296. “But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.”

— Agatha Christie

297. “Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory.”

— Agatha Christie

298. “A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can’t help looking like a sheep.”

— Agatha Christie

299. “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

300. “Character, mon cher, does not stand still. It can gather strength. It can also deteriorate. What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes – that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.”

— Agatha Christie