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Agatha Christie Quotes

1890–1976

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English author of detective fiction.

Also known as: Christie, Agatha

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156 quotes

But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.

Death on the Nile (1937)

“This affair must all be unravelled from within.” He tapped his forehead. “These little grey cells. It is ‘up to them’ — as you say over here.”

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.

Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)

How convenient if you could ring up Harrods and say ‘Please send along two good murderers, will you?’

The Pale Horse (1961)

He could have shot her from behind a hedge in the good old Irish fashion and probably got away with it.

A Murder is Announced (1950)

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

Death on the Nile (1937)

You have an excellent heart, my friend — but your grey cells are in a deplorable condition.

Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)

I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one's own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.

The Moving Finger (1942)

Even the sensible and the competent have been given tongues by le bon Dieu — and they do not always employ their tongues wisely.

The Labours of Hercules (1967)

There is always something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

N or M? (1941)

Let us think only of the good days that are to come.

Death Comes as the End (1945)

Blood tells — always remember that — blood tells.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

An Autobiography (1977)

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)

In my end is my beginning — that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...

Endless Night (1967)

There is no such thing as muddle — obscurity, yes — but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain.

Death in the Clouds (1935)

“Tout de même,” said Poirot, “since I cannot find anything, eh bien, then the logic falls out of the window.”

Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.

Death in the Clouds (1935)

‘I have often noticed that being a devoted wife saps the intellect,’ murmured Tommy.

N or M? (1941)

To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.

The Moving Finger (1942)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Agatha Christie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.