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As you yourself have said, wh...

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 428 quotes

I know nothing about pistols ...

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

No sign, so far, of anything ...

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

What's wrong with my proposit...

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

To put it quite crudely ... t...

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

I was thinking, that when my ...

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

Sitting here with one's knitt...

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

I think, myself, that one's m...

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

To feel admiration for a man ...

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

I would like it to be said th...

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

Curious things, habits. Peopl...

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

I have always been so sure - ...

I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

Imagination is a good servant...

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

I suppose without curiosity a...

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

At the small table, sitting v...

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

If you are to be Hercule Poir...

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

Vous eprouves trop d'emotion,...

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 happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

One little Indian boy left al...

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

Liking is more important than...

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

Very unfortunately, she had n...

Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

Agatha Christie 428 quotes

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