Agatha Christie

“Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea când o primesc!”

“If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go”

“He felt lost without his hatred–lost and afraid.About Mickey Argyle”

“Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.”

“Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes and inclinations is the most important consideration.”

“Is no one incapable of murder?”

“I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.”

“There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.”

“When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.”

“Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.”

“Vi pripadate Ligi naroda?-Ja pripadam cijelom svijetu, madame, reče Poirot dramatično.”

“Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten.”

“Soy de esos que pueden oírlo todo." —Poirot”

“What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.”

“Inside, it was 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.”

“But Amyas was like all the Crales, a ruthless egoist. He loved Caroline but he never once considered her in any way. He did as he pleased.”

“Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.”

“If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.”

“I know when a couple are really in love with each other. And by that I do not mean just sexually attracted. There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love, but cannot succeed by itself.”

“Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating about them.”

“No, I wouldn't. I wouldn’t tell a soul.''People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it.”

“I’ve no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.”

“Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!”

“Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”

“The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.”

“You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes- two people. One is le bon Dieu - and the other is Hercule Poirot”

“Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?”

“I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.”

“She looked at nobody, but just before she went out, she raised her eyes and took a speedy glance at me. There was something in that looks that startled me - though it was difficult to describe why. There was malice in it, and a curious intimate knowledge. I felt that, without effort, and almost without curiosity, she had known exactly what thoughts were in my mind.”

“Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?''What?''A sport!''And a damned good sport too,' said Tommy.”

“IF anybody had been there to observe the gentle-looking elderlylady who stood meditatively on the loggia outside her bungalow,they would have thought she had nothing more on her mind thandeliberation on how to arrange her time that day. An expedition, perhaps, to Castle Cliff; a visit to Jamestown; a nice drive andlunch at Pelican Point_ or just a quiet morning on the beach.But the gentle old lady was deliberating quite other matters. Shewas in a militant mood.”

“A natureza humana está cheia de incongruências.”

“Interrogo-me muitas vezes porque motivo tem o mundo uma tendência tão grande para generalizar. As generalizações raramente ou quase nunca são verdadeiras e são muitas vezes totalmente inexactas.”

“It was not until I was over twenty that I realised that my home standard had been unusually high and that actually I was quite as quick or quicker than the average. Inarticulate I shall always be. It is probably one of the causes that have made made me a writer.”

“Pilar-remember-nothing is so boring as devotion.”

“I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.”

“Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple”

“I daresay idle tittle-tattle is very wrong and unkind, but it is so often true, isn't it.”

“You're a man milliner, Poirot. I never notice what people have on.""You should join a nudist colony”

“When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour.”He paused.“It's Zero Hour now.”

“I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”

“A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.”

“One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.”

“The cat is obeying its blood instinct when it plays with the mouse! It's made that way.”

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

“If thing is as clear as daylight, mistrust it! someone has made it so!”

“... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”

“I was born to live dangerously.”

“Men—’ said Miss Williams, and stopped.As a rich property owner says ‘Bolsheviks’—as an earnest Communist says ‘Capitalists!’—as a good housewife says ‘Blackbeetles’—so did Miss Williams say ‘Men!”

“I was such a foolish girl - girls are foolish, Mr. Satterthwaite. They are so sure of themselves, so convinced they know best. People write and talk a lot of a ‘woman’s instinct.’ I don’t believe, Mr.Satterthwaite, that there is any such thing. There doesn’t seem to be anything that warns girls against a certain type of man. Nothing in themselves, I mean. Their parents warn them, but that’s no good - one doesn’t believe. It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.”