01UndatedIt is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
02UndatedI like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
04UndatedPoirot," I said. "I have been thinking.""An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
05UndatedNo, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?--PoirotAgatha Christie / quote ↗
06UndatedIf you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
07UndatedWhere do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?Agatha Christie / quote ↗
08UndatedDo you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?”“Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring.“Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.”“I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.”Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda DawesAgatha Christie / quote ↗
09UndatedThe truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
12UndatedWe are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
13UndatedWhen you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
14UndatedDeath, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I heard what you said just now to my friend Hastings. ‘A nice bright girl with no men friends.’ You said that in mockery of the newspapers. And it is very true—when a young girl is dead, that is the kind of thing that is said. She was bright. She was happy. She was sweet-tempered. She had not a care in the world. She had no undesirable acquaintances. There is a great charity always to the dead. Do you know what I should like this minute? I should like to find someone who knew Elizabeth Barnard and who does not know she is dead! Then, perhaps, I should hear what is useful to me—the truth.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
16UndatedAnd yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-""Ah, no, my friend-""From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
17UndatedThe best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
18UndatedThere was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
19UndatedUn archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
21UndatedIn fact there is only your own instinct?Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong-Agatha Christie / quote ↗
22UndatedI suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
23UndatedThe truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are nearest to you...''Isn't that going a little too far--exaggerating too much?''I don't think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
24UndatedNo one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
