Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

308. “En voiture, Monsieur,’ said the Wagon Lit conductor.”

— Agatha Christie

309. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

312. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— 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. “What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one’s house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.”

— Agatha Christie

317. “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

318. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

320. “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

321. “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

322. “In fact-Dr. Sheppard!”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

324. “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

325. “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

326. “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

327. “Family strength is a marvellous thing.”

— Agatha Christie

328. “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

329. “Old sins have long shadows.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

335. “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

336. “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

337. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

340. “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

341. “That’s different. She’s a woman, and women act in that silly way. I’m not saying she did it for a moment. She heard he was accused and she trumped up a story. I’m used to that sort of game. You wouldn’t believe the fool things I’ve known women do.”

— Agatha Christie

342. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

344. “How wonderful science is nowadays,” said Miss Marple. “Doctors can do so much, can’t they?” “We all have one great competitor,” said Dr. Graham. “Nature, you know. And some of the good old-fashioned home remedies come back from time to time.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

347. “If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison someone by mistake, you wouldn’t joke about it.”

— Agatha Christie

348. “No, doctor, I’m going to London. If things happen anywhere, they happen in London.”

— Agatha Christie

349. “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

350. “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