Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “En voiture, Monsieur,’ said the Wagon Lit conductor.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

303. “I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around – seeking always something that is not very nice.”

— Agatha Christie

304. “The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.”

— Agatha Christie

305. “In fact-Dr. Sheppard!”

— Agatha Christie

306. “Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That’s all prehistoric.”

— Agatha Christie

307. “But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way.”

— Agatha Christie

308. “His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people leading lives of surpassing dullness.”

— Agatha Christie

309. “The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.”

— Agatha Christie

310. “I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.”

— Agatha Christie

311. “At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.”

— Agatha Christie

312. “People should be interested in books, not their authors.”

— Agatha Christie

313. “But that is certainly not the sort of information that Caroline is after. She wants to know where he comes from, what he does, whether he is married, what his wife was, or is, like, whether he has children, what his mother’s maiden name was – and so on. Somebody very like Caroline must have invented the questions on passports, I think.”

— Agatha Christie

314. “I do think you should be more careful how you choose your friends. You are so credulous, dear, so easily gulled. I suppose it is being a writer and having so much imagination. If you were older and had more experience of life you would have been on guard at once.”

— Agatha Christie

315. “Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don’t exist for them.”

— Agatha Christie

316. “Family strength is a marvellous thing.”

— Agatha Christie

317. “We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.”

— Agatha Christie

318. “You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you.”

— Agatha Christie

319. “Even the most sober of us is liable to have his head turned by success.”

— Agatha Christie

320. “Well, you can’t go about having blood feuds and stabbing each other like Crosicans or the Mafia,” said the Colonel. “Say what you like, trial by jury is a sound system.”

— Agatha Christie

321. “Justice is, after all, in the hands of men and men are fallible.”

— Agatha Christie

322. “Now there has been a rearrangement of the kaleidoscope.”

— Agatha Christie

323. “Well, medicine was mostly faith-healing when it came to it. And he had a good manner – he could inspire hope and belief.”

— Agatha Christie

324. “To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.”

— Agatha Christie

325. “There is always a brave new world,” said Poirot, “but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.”

— Agatha Christie

326. “If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.”

— Agatha Christie

327. “Imposibilul nu poate sa se fi intamplat, ca atare imposibilul trebuie sa fie posibil, in ciuda aparentelor.”

— Agatha Christie

328. “Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

330. “Colonel Race was not good at small talk and might indeed have posed as the model of a strong silent man so beloved by an earlier generation of novelists.”

— Agatha Christie

331. “I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.”

— Agatha Christie

332. “No sign, so far, of anything sinister – but I live in hope.”

— Agatha Christie

333. “In an Empire where rats ruled, he was the king of the rats.”

— Agatha Christie

334. “To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.”

— Agatha Christie

335. “The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one’s own particular race is fairly widespread. Dr Gerard was wiser. He knew that no race, no country and no individual could be described as free. But he also knew that there were different degrees of bondage.”

— Agatha Christie

336. “Poirot and I behaved in the customary fashion of people being shown over houses. We stood stock still, looking a little ill at ease, murmuring remarks such as: “Very nice.” “A very pleasant room.” “The morning-room, you say?”

— Agatha Christie

337. “I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.”

— Agatha Christie

338. “The sons of rich men are proverbially wild.”

— Agatha Christie

339. “I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.”

— Agatha Christie

340. “What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought.”

— Agatha Christie

341. “Coffee, then, Madame. You need some stimulant.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

343. “Jonas knew for a fact that it had been purchased by the Admiralty with a view to carrying out some very hush-hush experiments!”

— Agatha Christie

344. “She was, he judged, the kind of young woman who could take care of herself with perfect ease wherever she went. She had poise and efficiency.”

— Agatha Christie

345. “It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants. My.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

347. “I objected vigorously to this unsporting proposal. I recognized in it the disastrous effects of matrimony. How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female say, in the tone of one clinching an argument, “Edgar says – ” And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool. Suzanne, by reason of her married state, was yearning to lean upon some man or other.”

— Agatha Christie

348. “Shaitana was a man who prided himself on his Mephistophelian attitude to life. He was a man of great vanity. He was also a stupid man-that’s why he is dead.”

— Agatha Christie

349. “Inspector Hardcastle walked in manfully. Unfortunately for him he was one of those men who have cat allergy. As usually happens on these occasions all the cats immediately made for him. One jumped on his knee, another rubbed affectionately against his trousers. Detective Inspector Hardcastle, who was a brave man, set his lips and endured.”

— Agatha Christie

350. “Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge – my experience – that tells me that something about that letter is wrong –.”

— Agatha Christie