01c. 1933 ADI have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalancedAgatha Christie / quote ↗
03c. 1933 ADShe's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
04c. 1933 ADNowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better - who are undeveloped - who are to be pitied rather than blamed. But, M. Poirot, evil is real! It is a fact! I believe in Evil as I believe in Good. It exists! It is powerful! It walks the earth!' He stopped. His breath was coming fast. He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and looked suddenly apologetic. 'I'm sorry. I got carried away.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
05c. 1933 ADEvil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
06c. 1933 ADThere is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the character and circumstances of the murdered person. Because the victim was the kind of person he or she was, therefore was he or she murdered! Until we can understand fully and completely exactly what kind of a person [she] was, we shall not be able to see clearly exactly the kind of person who murdered her. From that spring the necessity of our questions.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
07c. 1933 ADI mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
09c. 1933 ADI like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
10c. 1933 ADI think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
11c. 1933 ADMen don't want to be brothers - they may someday, but they don't now. My belief in the brotherhood of man died the day I arrived in London last week, when I observed the people standing in a Tube train resolutely refuse to move up and make room for those who entered. You won't turn people into angels by appealing to their better natures just yet awhile - but by judicious force you can coerce them into behaving more or less decently to one another to go on with. I will still believe in the brotherhood of man, but it's not coming yet awhile. Say another ten thousand years or so. It's no good being impatient. Evolution is a slow process.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
13c. 1933 ADSpeech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
14c. 1933 ADSometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
15c. 1933 ADWhat I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
17c. 1933 ADA meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
18c. 1933 ADThe popular idea 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 ↗
19c. 1933 ADSixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died...Agatha Christie / quote ↗
20c. 1933 ADI think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand Lenin's dictum: 'Away with softness.'"I thought of Hercule Poirot's words."I'm content," I said, "to be human...."We sat there in silence, each of use convinced that the other's point of view was wrong.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
21c. 1933 ADI think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
22c. 1933 ADWhen you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!Agatha Christie / quote ↗
23c. 1933 ADPlease don't be too prejudiced against the poor thing because she's a liar. I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies. I mean that though, to take an instance, her atrocity stories have grown and grown until every kind of unpleasant story that has ever appeared in print has happened to her or her relations personally, she did have a bad shock initially and did see one, at least, of her relations killed. I think a lot of these displaced persons feel, perhaps justly, that their claim to our notice and sympathy lies in their atrocity value and so they exaggerate and invent.Agatha Christie / quote ↗
24c. 1933 ADTo know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deceptionAgatha Christie / quote ↗
