Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Coffee, then, Madame. You need some stimulant.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

354. “Until one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.”

— Agatha Christie

355. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

358. “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

359. “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

360. “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

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

— 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. “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

364. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

368. “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

369. “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

370. “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

371. “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

372. “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

373. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

375. “I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

377. “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

378. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

381. “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

382. “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

383. “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

384. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

386. “Arrange your ideas. Be methodical. Be orderly. There is the secret of success.”

— Agatha Christie

387. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

389. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

393. “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

394. “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

395. “And most conveniently she leaves her handkerchief behind!” said Poirot. “Exactly as it happens in the books and on the films – and to make things even easier for us it is marked with an initial.”

— Agatha Christie

396. “When will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself. Usually for the man she loves. Always for her children.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

399. “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

400. “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