“The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.”
Source: At Bertram's Hotel
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Famous Agatha Christie Quotes
“Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.”
Source: Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress
“The tragedy of life is that people do not change.”
Source: Taken at the flood
“One place is very like another.”
Source: Death on the Nile (Poirot)
“The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.”
Source: The Mysterious Mr Quin
“Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?”
Source: Crooked House
Source: Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries
Source: The Secret Adversary (Diversion Classics)
“too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.”
Source: Curtain
“Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.”
Source: agatha christie
Source: Murder in our midst
Source: Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage
“Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.”
Source: Five complete Hercule Poirot novels
Source: The man in the brown suit
“Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.”
Source: Dame Agatha abroad
“There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.”
Source: n or m?
“In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.”
Source: The Seven Dials Mystery
“The truth often does sound unconvincing.”
Source: Murder at the manor: The Seven dials mystery, Crooked House, Ordeal by innocence
“I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.”
Source: Five complete Hercule Poirot novels
“The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
Source: The man in the brown suit
Source: Masterpieces of murder
“Desperate ills need desperate remedies.”
Source: Murderers abroad: five complete novels
Source: Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger
“... obsessions are always dangerous.”
Source: Crime reader
Source: Triple Threat: Exploits of Three Famous Detectives: Hercule Poirot, Harley Quin and Tuppence
Source: Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air
Source: Murderers abroad: five complete novels
“There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.”
Source: Five complete Hercule Poirot novels
“Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.”
Source: Five complete Hercule Poirot novels
“If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.”
Source: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
“... nothing is so boring as devotion.”
Source: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Source: Sad cypress
“Hate doesn't last. Love does.”
Source: Murder in our midst
Source: Remembered Death
Source: Murder at the manor
Source: Dame Agatha abroad
“... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.”
Source: The pale horse
Source: Endless night
“Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.”
Source: An autobiography
“The first time you do a thing is always exciting.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
Source: An autobiography
Source: Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries
“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”