Agatha Osgood Quotes

#1. At the end of the evening, Paxton and Willa walked Agatha out to the nurse's car, after Agatha had given them a blind tour of the Madam, pointing out by feel and memory everything she remembered about the house. She and Georgie sliding down the banister and their skirts flying up. Playing dolls in Georgie's room. Having pineapple upside-down cake the Jacksons' cook would make in a cast-iron frying pan, so that the brown sugar on top turned crispy. A slide-away secret compartment in the bookcase where they used to leave notes for each other. #Quote by Sarah Addison Allen

#2. There's no doubt about what the man's profession has been. He's a retired hairdresser. Look at that moustache of his. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#3. They found he'd had a lethal dose of something that only a doctor could pronounce properly. As far as I remember it sounds vaguely like di-flor, hexagonal-ethylcarbenzol. That's not the right name. But that's roughly what it sounds like. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#4. Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance? #Quote by Agatha Christie

#5. Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#6. I can look after her all right, sir," said Tommy, at exactly the same minute as Tuppence said, "I can take care of myself. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#7. If it is necessary for a criminal to be a consummate actress, then by all means assume her to be one. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#8. Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ... #Quote by Agatha Christie

#9. Geometry is the noblest branch of physics. #Quote by William Fogg Osgood

#10. only had to write the play that I was already thinking of. Plays are much easier to write than books, because you can see them in your mind's eye, you are not hampered with all that description which clogs you so terribly in a book and stops you getting on with what's happening. The circumscribed limits of the stage simplifies things for you. You don't have to follow the heroine up and down the stairs, or out to the tennis lawn and back, thinking thoughts that have to be described. You have only what can be seen and heard and done to deal with. Looking and listening and feeling is what you have to deal with. I should #Quote by Agatha Christie

#11. I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#12. Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#13. Guy Carpenter frowned and came into the drawing room through the window. He had a long face like a horse, he was pale and looked rather supercilious. His manner was pompous. Hercule Poirot found him unattractive. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#14. He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#15. You should employ your little grey cells #Quote by Agatha Christie

#16. 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. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#17. There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal
I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#18. To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#19. Man is an unoriginal animal, said Hercule Poirot #Quote by Agatha Christie

#20. Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#21. I will not look through keyholes," I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. "Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#22. That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky ... #Quote by Mabel Osgood Wright

#23. If I were dead, the first thing you'd do, with the tears streaming down your face, would be to start modelling some damned mourning woman or some figure of grief. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#24. I do think you should be more careful how you choose your friends. You are so credulous, dear, so easily gulled. I suppose it is being a writer and having so much imagination. If you were older and had more experience of life you would have been on guard at once. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#25. So many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly. Mr. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#26. Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop ... suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#27. There is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane! #Quote by Agatha Christie

#28. Long walks are off, and alas, bathing in the sea; fillet steaks and apples and raw blackberries (teeth difficulties) and reading fine print. But there is a great deal left. Operas and concerts, and reading, and the enormous pleasure of dropping into bed and going to sleep, and dreams of every variety. Almost best of all, sitting in the sun
gently drowsing and there you are again
remembering.
I remember, I remember, the house where I was born ... #Quote by Agatha Christie

#29. Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else."
"Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#30. Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes? #Quote by Agatha Christie

#31. Definitely not," Talon said. "If you screw up like that, you don't get another chance."
"But what if he really loves her and it was a mistake?"
"It wasn't," Talon said firmly. "He'd keep his cockadoodle in his pants if he loved her. He wouldn't hurt the person he loved. And she should leave his ass for her own good. #Quote by Agatha Bird

#32. No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't tell a soul.'

'People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#33. Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim? #Quote by Agatha Christie

#34. I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up. #Quote by Sophie Kinsella

#35. No innocent person ever has an alibi. #Quote by Agatha Christie

#36. But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale. #Quote by Agatha Christie