Murder at the Vicarage Quotes

“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“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, Murder at the Vicarage

“At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“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, Murder at the Vicarage

“What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“Was bad language used?” asked Colonel Melchett.
“It depends on what you call bad language.”
“Could you understand it?” I asked.
“Of course I could understand it.”
“Then it couldn’t have been bad language,” I said.
Mrs. Price Ridley looked at me suspiciously.
“A refined lady,” I explained, “is naturally unacquainted with bad language.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes and inclinations is the most important consideration.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage

“Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage

“They say all the world loves a lover—apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle appealing manner- Miss Wetherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. Of the two Miss Marple is the more dangerous.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“What are you doing this afternoon, Griselda?” “My duty,” said Griselda. “My duty as the Vicaress. Tea and scandal at four thirty.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage

“I use the word drifted advisedly. I have read novels in which young people are described as bursting with energy—joie de vivre, the magnificent vitality of youth … Personally, all the young people I come across have the air of animal wraiths.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage

“Miss Marple always sees everything. Gardening is as good as a smoke screen, and the habit of observing birds through powerful glasses can always be turned to account.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage

“It's awfully easy to appear silly, Mr. Clement. It's one of the easiest things in the world.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“I know that in books it is always the most unlikely person. But I never find that rule applies in real life. There it is so often the obvious that is true.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“Human nature is full of inconsistencies”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“I daresay idle tittle-tattle is very wrong and unkind, but it is so often true, isn't it.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“I'd rather have my job than yours."
"Why?"
"Because your job deals very largely with what we call right and
wrong — and I'm not at all sure that there's any such thing.
Suppose it's all a question of glandular secretion. Too much of
one gland, too little of another — and you get your murderer,
your thief, your habitual criminal. Clement, I believe the time will
come when we'll be horrified to think of the long centuries in
which we've indulged in what you may call moral reprobation, to
think how we've punished people for disease — which they can't
help, poor devils. You don't hang a man for having tuberculosis.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“She used to say:"The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people KNOW the young people are fools!”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“as long as Mary can’t cook and has those awful manners—well, we’re safe, nobody else would have her.” I perceived that my wife’s methods of housekeeping were not so entirely haphazard as I had imagined. A certain amount of reasoning underlay them. Whether it was worthwhile having a maid at the price of her not being able to cook, and having a habit of throwing dishes and remarks at one with the same disconcerting abruptness, was a debatable matter.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage

“The young have very curious views on unselfishness.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“But I always find it prudent to suspect everybody
just a little. What I say is, you really never know, do you?”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage