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1 " I 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
2 " To every problem, there is a most simple solution. "
― Agatha Christie , The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30)
3 " No, 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?--Poirot "
― Agatha Christie , One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #20)
4 " If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off. "
5 " Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open? "
― Agatha Christie , The Moving Finger
6 " The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter. "
― Agatha Christie , A Caribbean Mystery
7 " What good is money if it can't buy happiness? "
― Agatha Christie , The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1)
8 " One always has hope for human nature "
― Agatha Christie , Sleeping Murder
9 " We 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. "
10 " When 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 , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)
11 " In the midst of life, we are in death. "
― Agatha Christie , And Then There Were None
12 " Death, 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 , The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #12)
13 " Death was for-the other people. "
14 " There 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 , Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
15 " Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei. "
16 " One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late. "
― Agatha Christie , Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10)
17 " In 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- "
18 " I 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. "
19 " The 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. "
20 " No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest. "
― Agatha Christie , Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)
