Hercule Poirot Quotes

For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!

Agatha Christie

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

Agatha Christie

But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

Agatha Christie

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

Agatha Christie

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.

Agatha Christie

It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

Agatha Christie

The two words expressed volumes.

Agatha Christie

Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

Agatha Christie

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

Agatha Christie