Author of quotes: Agatha Christie. Page 2

But there is a defenselessness in young people that touches me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable... So cruel... So opinionated... So generous and so demanding...

She did not fight, but retreated into her world of partial shade and half-light. She didn’t lose because she didn’t play.

- How would I put it more clearly... It's a typical English way of looking at things. "Do not shoot at a sitting bird" - do you understand the meaning of such an expression?
- Yes, as you said, a typical English point of view. But I think I understood. And in the Central Criminal Court, and on the Eton Sports Ground, and in the hunting grounds, it is important for the Englishman that the victim has his chance.

Children are sometimes very good at people.

Here, after all, you know, it is not the muscles that are important. I don’t have to bend over and measure footprints, collect cigarette butts and study crumpled blades of grass. It is enough to sit in a chair and think. It is here, ”he tapped his finger on his head, which was elongated in the shape of an egg,“ that works!

In my opinion, she belonged to the category of women who, having conquered a man, lose interest in him.

Murder cannot be viewed as an isolated fact. In nine cases out of ten, the reason for the murder lies in the character of the victim, in his personality. A person becomes a victim of murder because of who he is.

They were connected by an invisible thread of mutual sympathy based on a common hatred of the same person.

In order to be reckoned with, a woman must have a heart or head on her shoulders.

Do you know, Mrs. Poirot, what makes me mad the most?
- No, madam.
- Pity!

Today was wet weather, it was raining, the wind was blowing, then the fog came down. And now it's a calm evening, and the stars shine in the clear sky. Well, in life everything happens about the same.

I'm not crazy enough to argue with a person in love.

I know women well. They can make your life so difficult that it becomes unbearable, and the British - oh, they treat women like children.

Why chat if you have nothing to say?