Agatha Christie

The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don__ you?___f course I believe in the truth,_ said Rhoda, staring.__es, you say that, but perhaps you haven__ thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes _ and destroys one__ illusions._____ rather have it all the same._ said Rhoda. __o would I. But I don__ know that we__e wise.__rs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes

... suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of one's own and then, of course, after a time, one wouldn't be able to get back...

Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

If you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.

Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald__r Arthur__r whatever his name was__ad only lived." And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a stout, unromantic, short-tempered, middle-aged husband as likely as not.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

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.

But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that's imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who've said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.

Take the Pyramids. Great blocks of useless masonry, put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic bloated king. Think of the sweated masses who toiled to build them and died doing it. It makes me sick to think of the suffering and torture they represent."Mrs. Allerton said cheerfully: "You__ rather have no Pyramids, no Parthenon, no beautiful tombs or temples__ust the solid satisfaction of knowing that people got three meals a day and died in their beds."The young man directed his scowl in her direction. "I think human beings matter more than stones.

The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.

I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.