Quote

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Agatha Christie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
Autobiographer
Dramaturge
Novelist
Nurse
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
Literature
Every
Murderer
Friend
Somebody
Probably

More quotes by Agatha Christie

Image
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
Agatha Christie
Image
I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.
Agatha Christie
Image
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
Agatha Christie
Image
I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.
Agatha Christie
Image
Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.
Agatha Christie
Image
One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.
Agatha Christie
Image
It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.
Agatha Christie
Image
You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
Agatha Christie
Image
You've a pretty good nerve, said Ratchett. Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you? It will not. If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me. I, also M. Ratchett. What's wrong with my proposition? Poirot rose. If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett,
Agatha Christie
Image
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
Agatha Christie
Image
I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: I do not know...
Agatha Christie
Image
The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.
Agatha Christie
Image
Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.
Agatha Christie
Image
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
Agatha Christie
Image
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
Agatha Christie
Image
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
Agatha Christie
Image
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
Agatha Christie
Image
No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot
Agatha Christie
Image
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Agatha Christie
Image
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!
Agatha Christie