Quotes for All
Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day’s work….where crime is concerned, she’s the goods. Agatha Christie
Fey…a Scotch word…It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know–it’s too good to be true. Agatha Christie
I don’t go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it’s insulting. One is only sorry for people when they’re sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today. Agatha Christie
the detective’s highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them! Agatha Christie
Your not reliable. You wouldn’t be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with. Agatha Christie
Vous eprouves trop d’emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?’ ‘Good heavens, Poirot,’ I cried, ‘this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what … Read more
In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it. Agatha Christie
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty—to one’s friends and one’s family and one’s caste. Agatha Christie
As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?’ Poirot stared straight ahead of him. ‘That is what I ask myself,’ he said. ‘That is what I never cease to ask myself. Agatha Christie
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. Agatha Christie