Agatha Christie
With thought, all problems can be resolved.Collection: Problem
It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.Collection: Love You
A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.Collection: Lying
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.Collection: Gone
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.Collection: Exercise
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.Collection: Imagination
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.Collection: Truth
The past is the father of the present.Collection: Father
You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.Collection: Healing
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.Collection: Thinking
Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]Collection: Order
You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.Collection: Fighting
Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.Collection: Love
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.Collection: Rose
Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.Collection: Believe
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Rich
Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?Collection: Believe
And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!Collection: Taken
And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.Collection: Idols
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.Collection: Memories
If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.Collection: Thinking
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..."Collection: Children
there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.Collection: Religious
... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.Collection: Mean
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.Collection: Missing
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]Collection: People
Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'Collection: Girl
When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.Collection: Men
Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.Collection: Persons
And 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.Collection: Views
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.Collection: Men
There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.Collection: Defence
Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.Collection: Sweet
She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.Collection: Morning
Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.Collection: Duty
I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.Collection: Long
One must make one's own mistakesCollection: Mistake
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.Collection: Inspirational
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!Collection: Book
With method and logic one can accomplish anything.Collection: Logic
One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.Collection: Midst
The first time you do a thing is always exciting.Collection: Firsts
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?Collection: Passion
There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.Collection: Character
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.Collection: Children
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.Collection: Rivers
For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.Collection: Running