Agatha Christie Quotations | Page 4

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.