Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself..

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island..

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out..

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was….

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the ….

Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ….

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap..

Very few of us are what we seem..

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and o….

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic..

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy..

Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I mus….

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosop….

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 tha….

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, po….

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true..

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving..