Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes – they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.”

— Agatha Christie

352. “For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.”

— Agatha Christie

353. “They tried to be too clever – and that was their undoing.”

— Agatha Christie

354. “I’ve always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.”

— Agatha Christie

355. “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

356. “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

357. “I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,” answered Father Brown. “The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person.”

— Agatha Christie

358. “Me and Moosier here have met before – and there’s no man’s judgment I’d sooner take than his. If I’m not greatly mistaken, he’s got something up his sleeve. Isn’t that so, moosier?” Poirot smiled. “I have drawn certain conclusions – yes.”

— Agatha Christie

359. “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

360. “It was on the fourth day that the stewardess finally urged me up on deck. Under the impression that I should die quicker below, I had steadfastly refused to leave my bunk. She now tempted me with the advent of Madeira. Hope rose in my breast. I could leave the boat and go ashore and be a parlourmaid there. Anything for dry land.”

— Agatha Christie

361. “Such a landscape was best enjoyed from a car on a fine afternoon. You exclaimed, “Quel beau paysage!” and drove back to a good hotel.”

— Agatha Christie

362. “How often is tittle tattle, as you call it, true! And I think if, as I say, they really examined the facts they would find that it was true nine times out of ten! That’s really just what makes people so annoyed about it.”

— Agatha Christie

363. “If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.”

— Agatha Christie

364. “What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?”

— Agatha Christie

365. “Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.”

— Agatha Christie

366. “The other two waited respectfully while M. Bouc struggled in mental agony.”

— Agatha Christie

367. “You’re apt to be done down if you speak nothing but good American.”

— Agatha Christie

368. “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

369. “But afterwards you went on remembering.”

— Agatha Christie

370. “In the words of a best seller, ‘You’ve nothing on me.”

— Agatha Christie

371. “Her real passion in life was the perfection of a filing system beside which all other filing systems should sink into oblivion. She dreamed of such a system at night.”

— Agatha Christie

372. “I’ve a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.”

— Agatha Christie

373. “With women, love always comes first.”

— Agatha Christie

374. “Where do one’s fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?”

— Agatha Christie

375. “Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden’s moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him.”

— Agatha Christie

376. “Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.”

— Agatha Christie

377. “A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty,” remarked Hercule Poirot.”

— Agatha Christie

378. “Ah, but you must have a Christmas uncomplicated by murder.”

— Agatha Christie

379. “Servants must be treated with the utmost courtesy. They are doing skilled work which you could not possibly do yourself without long training. And remember they cannot answer back. You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you. If you are impolite, they will despise you, and rightly, because you have not acted like a lady.”

— Agatha Christie

380. “A murderer is always a gambler. And, like many gamblers, a murderer often does not know when to stop. With each crime his opinion of his own abilities is strengthened. His sense of proportion is warped. He does not say, ‘I have been clever and lucky!’ No, he says only, ‘l have been clever!’ And his opinion of his cleverness grows... and then, roes amis, the ball spins.”

— Agatha Christie

381. “She’s had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.”

— Agatha Christie

382. “The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.”

— Agatha Christie

383. “Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle appealing manner- Miss Wetherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. Of the two Miss Marple is the more dangerous.”

— Agatha Christie

384. “Having adventures,” I replied. “Episode III of ‘The Perils of Pamela.’ ” I told her the whole story. She gave vent to a deep sigh when I finished. “Why do these things always happen to you?” she demanded plaintively. “Why does no one gag me and bind me hand and foot?” “You wouldn’t like it if they did,” I assured her. “To tell you the truth, I’m not nearly so keen on having adventures myself as I was. A little of that sort of thing goes a long way.”

— Agatha Christie

385. “A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another.”

— Agatha Christie

386. “Because, you see, if the man were an invention – a fabrication – how much easier to make him disappear!”

— Agatha Christie

387. “It was very like a dream. Like all dreamers, however, I could not let my dream alone. We poor humans are so anxious not to miss anything.”

— Agatha Christie

388. “I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow – to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.”

— Agatha Christie

389. “You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.”

— Agatha Christie

390. “Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn’t muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that’s imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who’ve said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.”

— Agatha Christie

391. “All the same, lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily poisoned their husbands.”

— Agatha Christie

392. “One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.”

— Agatha Christie

393. “Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.”

— Agatha Christie

394. “Where am I myself, the whole man, the true man? Where am I with God’s mark upon my brow?”

— Agatha Christie

395. “It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.”

— Agatha Christie

396. “Rest assured,” said Hercule Poirot. “I am the best!”

— Agatha Christie

397. “Women are fiends-absolute fiends.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

399. “They wish not to become adult – not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.”

— Agatha Christie

400. “It’s just that I am not really a safe person to be with. The life I’d lead wouldn’t be a safe life.”

— Agatha Christie