Source: The man in the brown suit
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Famous Agatha Christie Quotes
Source: Murder at the Vicarage
“And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.”
Source: Murder After Hours, the Hollow
“I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.”
Source: Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries
Source: The Labours of Hercules (Poirot)
Source: 5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection
“It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.”
Source: Endless night
“Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.”
Source: Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection
Source: Poirot loses a client
Source: Miss Marple – Miss Marple and Mystery: The Complete Short Stories (Miss Marple)
“The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.”
Source: An autobiography
“In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?”
Source: Endless night
“Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.”
Source: MURDER IN THREE ACTS
Source: The Dressmaker’s Doll: An Agatha Christie Short Story
“If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!”
Source: Murder Preferred
Source: Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger
“If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.”
Source: A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors
“More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.”
Source: Murder at the manor: The Seven dials mystery, Crooked House, Ordeal by innocence
Source: Endless night
“I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.”
Source: Postern of Fate
“Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.”
Source: MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER
“if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.”
Source: Haloween Party
“there is evil everywhere under the sun.”
Source: Evil Under the Sun (Poirot)
“Things never come when they are expected.”
Source: MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER
Source: Murder at the manor: The Seven dials mystery, Crooked House, Ordeal by innocence
“The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
Source: Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.”
Source: Hercule Poirot's casebook
Source: The Under Dog: And Other Stories
Source: Mrs. McGinty's Dead
“you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.”
Source: Funerals are Fatal
Source: The Mysterious Mr Quin
“Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.”
Source: The man in the brown suit
“Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.”
Source: Ordeal by innocence: Cat among the pigeons
“Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.”
Source: Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection
Source: At Bertram's Hotel
“You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.”
Source: Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries
Source: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Poirot)
Source: Funerals are Fatal
“Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.”
Source: Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries
Source: Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air
“Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.”
Source: Dame Agatha abroad