Agatha Christie Quotes (65 Quotes)
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- But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.
(Agatha Christie, "Murder on the Orient Express")
- I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
(Agatha Christie, "Murder on the Orient Express")
- If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
(Agatha Christie, "Murder on the Orient Express")
- I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
(Agatha Christie, "Murder on the Orient Express")
- The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
(Agatha Christie, "Murder on the Orient Express")
- Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.
(Agatha Christie, "Death on the Nile")
- Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.
(Agatha Christie, "Murder on the Orient Express")
- Be sure, they sin will find thee out
(Agatha Christie, "And Then There Were None")
- Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
(Agatha Christie, "Ten Little Indians")
- Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...
(Agatha Christie, "And Then There Were None")
- One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
(Agatha Christie, "And Then There Were None")
- One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.
(Agatha Christie, "And Then There Were None")
- A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.
(Agatha Christie, "And Then There Were None")
- In the midst of life, we are in death.
(Agatha Christie, "And Then There Were None")
- It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.
(Agatha Christie, "And Then There Were None")
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