The Collection Quotes

“he bounced a peach on the floor to show how hard it was—only it wasn’t quite as hard as he thought and it squashed.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“A groan burst from Poirot. “What have I always told you? Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.”
― Agatha Christie, AGATHA CHRISTIE Premium Collection: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Adversary, The Murder on the Links, The Cornish Mystery, Hercule Poirot's Cases

“The Murder on the Links”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“I have no desire to participate in sensational happenings. Sometimes, in front of a good fire, I do not object to reading about them in the newspaper. But that is as far as I am willing to go. My object”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“not a sentimental schoolgirl—I’m a hard-headed mercenary shrew! You’d know it if you married me!”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“Mind you, I still believe in democracy. But you’ve got to force it on people with a strong hand—ram it down their throats. Men don’t want to be brothers—they may some day, but they don’t now. My belief in the brotherhood of man died the day I arrived in London last week, when I observed people standing in a Tube train resolutely refuse to move up and make room for those who entered. You won’t turn people into angels by appealing to their better natures just yet awhile—but by judicious force you can coerce them into behaving more or less decently to one another to go on with. I still believe in the brotherhood of man, but it’s not coming yet awhile. Say another ten thousand years or so. It’s no good being impatient. Evolution is a slow process.”
― Agatha Christie, AGATHA CHRISTIE Premium Collection: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Adversary, The Murder on the Links, The Cornish Mystery, Hercule Poirot's Cases

“Never, never will you use the brains the good God has given you.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“All the things that one had read a hundred times — things that happen to other people, not to oneself. And now, in this house, a murder had been committed.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“You won’t turn people into angels by appealing to their better natures just yet awhile—but by judicious force you can coerce them into behaving more or less decently to one another to go on with. I still believe in the brotherhood of man, but it’s not coming yet awhile. Say another ten thousand years or so. It’s no good being impatient. Evolution is a slow process.” “I’m”
― Agatha Christie, AGATHA CHRISTIE Premium Collection: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Adversary, The Murder on the Links, The Cornish Mystery, Hercule Poirot's Cases

“I don’t think I ever really believed in the annihilation of Anne. There is something peculiarly indestructible about that young woman”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“Lord Caterham has that solemn and shocked look which Englishmen assume when a religious ceremony is in progress.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“Love isn’t a drug that you take to blind you to your surroundings—you can make it that, yes, but it’s a pity—love can be a lot more than that.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“Listen to me, Bill. Proposing to me is your idée fixe. All men propose when they’re bored and can’t think of anything to say.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“Well, you see, Mr. Cade, most of my work has lain amongst these people. What they call the upper classes, I mean. You see, the majority of people are always wondering what the neighbours will think. But tramps and aristocrats don’t—they just do the first thing that comes into their heads, and they don’t bother to think what anyone thinks of them. I’m not meaning just the idle rich, the people who give big parties, and so on. I mean those that have had it born and bred in them for generations that nobody else’s opinion counts but their own. I’ve always found the upper classes the same—fearless, truthful, and sometimes extraordinarily foolish.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“Not that I approve of women in politics—St. Stephen’s is ruined, absolutely ruined, nowadays. But woman in her own sphere can do wonders.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“The 16th of July fell on a Monday.”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie The Collection

“There is a woman with a head and a heart too, Hastings. Though the good God gave her no beauty!”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“He didn’t seem in the least surprised to see Harry walk in, dripping wet, holding an equally dripping female by the hand. Men are very wonderful.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“One must take the downs with the ups, my friend.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“Never, never will the grey cells function unless you stimulate them.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“We went off, leaving Caroline rather like a dog who has been refused a walk, standing on the front door step gazing after us.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“Flora is like all these young girls nowadays, with no veneration for their betters and thinking they know best on every subject under the sun,”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“The little grey cells of the brain,” explained the Belgian. “Oh, of course; well, we all use them, I suppose.” “In a greater or lesser degree,” murmured Poirot. “And there are, too, differences in quality. Then there is the psychology of a crime. One must study that.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“It is odd, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily poisoned their husbands.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“The motto of the mongoose family, so Mr. Kipling tells us, is: “Go and find out.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“I know that kings and queens and government officials are prevented by etiquette from doing anything in a simple, straightforward fashion. Hence King’s Messengers and all that. In medieval days you gave a fellow a signet ring as a sort of open sesame. ‘The King’s Ring! Pass, my lord!”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection

“Meek men are always obstinate, I have noticed.”
― Agatha Christie, The Collection