Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

254. “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

255. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

259. “The truth often does sound unconvincing.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

262. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

264. “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

265. “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

266. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— 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. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

274. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

276. “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

277. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

280. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

283. “Miss Marple always sees everything. Gardening is as good as a smoke screen, and the habit of observing birds through powerful glasses can always be turned to account.”

— Agatha Christie

284. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

286. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

288. “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

289. “Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.”

— Agatha Christie

290. “I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that’s it, I want to find something.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

293. “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

294. “Are you really a detective, then?” “At your service, Madame.” “I thought there were no detectives on the train when it passed through Yugo-Slavia – not until one got to Italy.” “I am not a Yugo-Slavian detective, Madame. I am an international detective.” “You belong to the League of Nations?” “I belong to the world, Madame,” said Poirot dramatically.”

— Agatha Christie

295. “Hercule Poirot was sitting at the breakfast table. At his right hand was a steaming cup.”

— Agatha Christie

296. “One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”

— Agatha Christie

297. “My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.”

— Agatha Christie

298. “Beauty is perhaps a dangerous possession,’ I said.”

— Agatha Christie

299. “Hate isn’t creative.” – Stillingfleet.”

— Agatha Christie

300. “Ackroyd was sitting as I had left him in the armchair before the fire. His head had fallen sideways, and clearly visible, just below the collar of his coat, was a shining piece of twisted metalwork. Parker and I advanced till we stood over the recumbent figure. I heard the butler draw in his breath with a sharp hiss. “Stabbed from be’ind,” he murmured. “’Orrible!”

— Agatha Christie