Agatha Christie People Quotations

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

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.

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.