Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

354. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

356. “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

357. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

359. “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

360. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

364. “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

365. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

370. “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

371. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

374. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

376. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

378. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

380. “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

381. “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

382. “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

383. “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

384. “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

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— 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. “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

396. “There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.”

— Agatha Christie

397. “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

398. “But afterwards you went on remembering.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie