The Agatha Christie Collection Quotes

“The orthodox weapon,” he observed.”
― Agatha Christie, The Agatha Christie Collection: 41 Works

“The present is apt to be—parochial.”
― Agatha Christie, The Agatha Christie Collection: 41 Works

“Her qualities were all excellent qualities, but sometimes Edward wished that she had more faults and less virtues. It was her virtues that drove him to desperate deeds.”
― Agatha Christie, The Agatha Christie Collection: 41 Works

“Once people have got a moty car, blessed if they can stay still anywheres”
― Agatha Christie, The Agatha Christie Collection: 41 Works

“It is hard when you are twenty-four years of age, and your one ambition in life is to reduce your handicap at golf, to be forced to give time and attention to the problem of earning your living.”
― Agatha Christie, The Agatha Christie Collection: 41 Works

“The extraordinary sanity of the insane is a most interesting subject.”
― Agatha Christie, The Agatha Christie Collection: 41 Works

“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?”
― Agatha Christie, The Agatha Christie Collection: 41 Works

“And if you find Horace a little gruff,’ she continued, ‘pay no attention. It’s just his manner, you know.”
― Agatha Christie, The Agatha Christie Collection: 41 Works

“Yes, yes,” he said. “That is true. They must have no inkling that we are using them for our own ends. They are honest men--and that is their value to us. It is curious--but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. The instinct of the populace is infallible.” He paused, and then repeated, as though the phrase pleased him: “Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.”
― Agatha Christie, The Agatha Christie Collection: 41 Works