“Very few of us are what we seem.”
Source: Partners in Crime
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Famous Agatha Christie Quotes
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
Source: The Moving Finger (Miss Marple)
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
Source: Hallowe'en party
“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
“There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.”
Source: MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER
“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
“The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.”
“If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.”
Source: The mousetrap, & other plays
Source: An autobiography
“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”
“Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.”
Source: Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
Source: MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY
“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.”
Source: The Witness for the Prosecution: And Other Stories
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.”
Source: Endless night
Source: An autobiography
“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
Source: Hercule Poirot's casebook
Source: Remembered Death
“I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.”
Source: And Then There Were None
Source: Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
Source: An autobiography
Source: MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER
Source: Masterpieces of murder
Source: Remembered Death
“You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.”
“Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.”
Source: The mousetrap, & other plays
Source: Starring Miss Marple
“The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.”
Source: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Poirot)
“Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.”
Source: Starring Miss Marple
“Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.”
Source: Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
Source: Poirot in the Orient
Source: Funerals are Fatal
Source: Endless night
“I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Christie's Collections
“Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?”
Source: Masterpieces of murder