Agatha Christie

“What are you doing, Poirot?""I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.”

“There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.”

“The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.”

“I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....”

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

“Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.”

“Very few of us are what we seem.”

“Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.”

“Love can be a very frightening thing.’ ‘That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

“I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings”

“You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.”

“Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple”

“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”

“Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.”

“Lawrence arrossì, imbarazzato, poi sorrise. Un uomo innamorato è sempre uno spettacolo penoso.”

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

“They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.”

“Poirot was standing in the larder in a dramtic attitude. In his hand he was brandishing a leg of mutton.'My dear Poirot! What is the matter? have you gone mad?''Regard i pray you this mutton! But regard it closely!”

“It would mean a good film, the story that you have recounted to me there - but it bears no sort of resemblance to everyday life.''I admit that I haven't gone into all the details, but-''You have gone farther - you have ignored them magnificently.”

“My friend, in working upon a case, one does not take into account only the things that are "mentioned". There is no reason to mention many things which may be important. Equally, there is often an excellent reason for not mentioning them.”

“Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”

“Death was temporary, lasting only long enough to provoke a laugh from kids in pajamas sitting cross-legged in front of the TV set, gorging themselves on handfuls of Froot Loops.”

“At first, I was polite. Really. I said "excuse me," I tried to squeeze through gaps, even apologized for stepping on some toes. What can I say, I'm Canadian.”

“I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying anything funny.”

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime.”

“Was there such a thing as a world of romance and adventure somewhere? Where there women whose beauty intoxicated? Was there such a thing as love that devoured one like a flame?”

“When youth begins to pass, fun isn't fun any longer.”

“Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.”

“Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.”

“One of the oddest things in life I think is the things one remembers.”

“That rebellion of mine was an important turning point in my life.”

“Go away where you're loved and taken care of and looked after.”

“She'd never stopped for a moment wanting me to be different but her wishes were never going to come true.”

“My whole belief in life was based on the fact that [she] loved me.”

“There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet.”

“Oh no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.”

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

“Nobody shall drive us away,” I said. “We're going to be happy here.” We said it like a challenge to fate.”

“She's a gipsy really. That's why she can't stay in houses. She wanders away and comes back again.”

“It wasn't what you were born to, and no good comes from getting out of your station in life.”

“I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.”

“Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you'd seen them.”

“I think somebody deliberately wanted to frighten her.”

“I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.”

“Take what you want, says God, but pay for it”

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

“I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.”

“Mon ami, let this be a lesson to you. You are a man. Behave, then, like a man! It is against Nature for a man to grovel. Women and Nature have almost exactly the same reactions! Remember it is better to take the largest plate within reach and fling it at a woman's head than it is to wriggle like a worm whenever she looks at you!”

“the elephant can remember.”

“Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better - who are undeveloped - who are to be pitied rather than blamed. But, M. Poirot, evil is real! It is a fact! I believe in Evil as I believe in Good. It exists! It is powerful! It walks the earth!' He stopped. His breath was coming fast. He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and looked suddenly apologetic. 'I'm sorry. I got carried away.”