Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumours go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them.

— Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie Quotes

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

— Agatha Christie

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

— Agatha Christie

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

The rottenness comes from within.

— Agatha Christie

One must make one’s own mistakes.

— Agatha Christie

Everyone likes talking about himself. – Hercule Poirot.

— Agatha Christie

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

— Agatha Christie

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

— Agatha Christie

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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

— Agatha Christie

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

— Agatha Christie

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

— Agatha Christie

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.

— Agatha Christie

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

— Agatha Christie

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

— Agatha Christie

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don’t realise it. – Miss Marple.

— Agatha Christie

You should employ your little grey cells.

— Agatha Christie

Your not reliable. You wouldn’t be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

— Agatha Christie

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

— Agatha Christie

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

— Agatha Christie

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

— Agatha Christie

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