'But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,' she added. 'If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way around.' Agatha Christie More Quotes by Agatha Christie More Quotes From Agatha Christie I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back. Agatha Christie walking-awayicemother Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you. Agatha Christie doctorssciencedeath 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 ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions! Agatha Christie eggsdoethinking What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions. Agatha Christie revolutionamericatravel Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it. Agatha Christie monthswritingbook Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride. Agatha Christie pridedoubtlove It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance. Agatha Christie vengeancequiet-peopletemper 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, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse. Agatha Christie charactermeanthinking I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it. Agatha Christie auntuncleslooks I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies. Agatha Christie lyingpeopleway 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 pay-the-priceninewant And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left. Agatha Christie castsleftidols We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then. Agatha Christie twentiespeopleyears I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery. Agatha Christie miserydifferencescomfort Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself. Agatha Christie oneselfduty The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood. Agatha Christie understoodlawnatural Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops. Agatha Christie sizewellsrunning too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being. Agatha Christie abhorrentsafetytoo-much You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst! Agatha Christie townslittlesthinking Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return. Agatha Christie
