Miss Marple and Mystery Quotes

“My dear lady,’ he was saying, ‘what is madness? I can assure you that the more we study the subject, the more difficult we find it to pronounce. We all practise a certain amount of self-deception, and when we carry it so far as to believe we are the Czar of Russia, we are shut up or restrained. But there is a long road before we reach that point. At what particular spot on it shall we erect a post and say, “On this side sanity, on the other madness?” It can’t be done, you know. And I will tell you this, if the man suffering from a delusion happened to hold his tongue about it, in all probability we should never be able to distinguish him from a normal individual. The extraordinary sanity of the insane is a most interesting subject.”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories

“mediocre amount of intelligence is sometimes most dangerous. It does not take one far enough.”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories

“There is a great deal of wickedness in village life. I hope you dear young people will never realize how very wicked the world is.”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories

“While the light lasts I shall remember, and in the darkness I shall not forget.”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories

“She must lead a very quiet life. No exertion. No fatigue. But, of course, she must not be allowed to brood. She must be kept cheerful and the mind well distracted.”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories

“jealousy is a pretty good motive for murder – and a pretty common one, too.”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories

“There are certain primitive elementary forces, Raoul. Most of them have been destroyed by civilization, but motherhood stands where it stood at the beginning. Animals – human beings, they are all the same. A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories

“For every patient who comes to me genuinely ill, at least five come who have nothing whatever the matter with them except an inability to live happily with the inmates of the same house. They call it everything – from housemaid’s knee to writer’s cramp, but it’s all the same thing, the raw surface produced by mind rubbing against mind.”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories

“The point of view of the Man in the Street.’ ‘Is that so important? Isn’t the Man in the Street usually wrong?’ ‘Oh! almost always. But he has the thing that all expert opinion must lack – the personal point of view. In the end, you know, you can’t get away from personal relationships.”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories

“played village bridge. A humdrum, everyday”
― Agatha Christie, Miss Marple and Mystery: Over 50 Stories