01UndatedTake the Pyramids. Great blocks of useless masonry, put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic bloated king. Think of the sweated masses who toiled to build them and died doing it. It makes me sick to think of the suffering and torture they represent."Mrs. Allerton said cheerfully: "You’d rather have no Pyramids, no Parthenon, no beautiful tombs or temples—just the solid satisfaction of knowing that people got three meals a day and died in their beds."The young man directed his scowl in her direction. "I think human beings matter more than stones.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
02UndatedWhy do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that's imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who've said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
04UndatedAn archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
05UndatedWomen can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
06UndatedThe amount of women you hear say, "If Donald—or Arthur—or whatever his name was—had only lived." And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a stout, unromantic, short-tempered, middle-aged husband as likely as not.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
07UndatedMy flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
08UndatedMoney, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it isAgatha Christie / quote ↗
09UndatedIf you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
11Undated... suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of one's own and then, of course, after a time, one wouldn't be able to get back...Agatha Christie / quote ↗
12UndatedThis was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
13UndatedWhy harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
14UndatedSuch nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's always very pleasant and all that, but one never seems to get to know her better.'Miss Marple agreed thoughtfully. 'One never knows what she is thinking.''Perhaps that is just as well.''I beg your pardon?''Oh nothing really, only that I've always had the feeling that perhaps her thoughts might be rather disconcerting.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
15UndatedThe popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
17UndatedChild's evidence is always the best evidence there is. I'd rely on it every time. No good in court, of course. Children can't stand being asked direct questions. They mumble or else look idiotic and say they don't know. They're at their best when they're showing off.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
18UndatedThey're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
19UndatedAt 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 / quote ↗
20UndatedYou've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"It will not."If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me."I, also M. Ratchett."What's wrong with my proposition?"Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
22UndatedWhat a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
23UndatedYour idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
24UndatedBut 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 / quote ↗
