WIST Quotations

Christie, Agatha -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
(Attributed)

Christie, Agatha -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
(Attributed)

Christie, Agatha -- (Attributed)

Dave — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 14:46:06 +0000

The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
(Attributed)

Christie, Agatha -- An Autobiography (1977)

Dave — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:43:55 +0000

I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
An Autobiography (1977)

Christie, Agatha -- Endless Night, ch. 3 (1967)

Dave — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:59:56 +0000

I didn’t want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
Endless Night, ch. 3 (1967)
(Source)

Christie, Agatha -- Endless Night, ch. 21 [Mr. Lippincott] (1967)

Dave — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:27:04 +0000

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
Endless Night, ch. 21 [Mr. Lippincott] (1967)
(Source)

Christie, Agatha -- Murder on the Orient Express [Poirot] (1934)

Dave — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:33:21 +0000

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 (1890-1976) English writer
Murder on the Orient Express [Poirot] (1934)

Christie, Agatha -- Murder on the Orient Express [Poirot] (1934)

Dave — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:03:37 +0000

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
Murder on the Orient Express [Poirot] (1934)

Christie, Agatha -- Sad Cypress, ch. 2 (1940)

Dave — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:45:44 +0000

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but all the same … one would not be without that experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
Sad Cypress, ch. 2 (1940)
(Source)

Christie, Agatha -- The ABC Murders, ch. 17 (1936)

Dave — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:24:30 +0000

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
The ABC Murders, ch. 17 (1936)

Christie, Agatha -- The ABC Murders, ch. 21 [Poirot] (1936)

Dave — Tue, 14 May 2024 16:06:53 +0000

A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
The ABC Murders, ch. 21 [Poirot] (1936)
(Source)

Christie, Agatha -- The Clocks, ch. 13 (1963)

Dave — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:32:05 +0000

I sidled through the doorway. It was necessary to sidle since precariously arranged books impinged more and more every day on the passageway from the street. Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way around. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
The Clocks, ch. 13 (1963)
(Source)

Christie, Agatha -- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd [Poirot] (1926)

Dave — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:21:38 +0000

Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd [Poirot] (1926)

Christie, Agatha -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles [Poirot] (1920)

Dave — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:49:02 +0000

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
The Mysterious Affair at Styles [Poirot] (1920)

Christie, Agatha -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, ch. 5 [Poirot] (1916, pub. 1920)

Dave — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:27:42 +0000

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, ch. 5 [Poirot] (1916, pub. 1920)
(Source)

Poirot, chiding Hastings' unfounded speculations.

Christie, Agatha -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Ch. 11 (Poirot) (1911)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Ch. 11 (Poirot) (1911)

Christie, Agatha -- The Secret of Chimneys, ch. 22 [Anthony Cade] (1925)

Dave — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 16:01:56 +0000

I’ve a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
The Secret of Chimneys, ch. 22 [Anthony Cade] (1925)
(Source)