Agatha Christie

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

You should employ your little grey cells.

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.