Christie's Quotes

Everything costs so much - clothes and one's face - and just silly things like cinemas and cocktails - and even gramophone records!' Roddy — Agatha Christie

The Captain's habit of letting off a revolver at real or imaginary cats was a sore trial to his neighbours. — Agatha Christie

I have my good and bad days, but when it's tough I just push through it. — Christie Rampone

It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine. — Gwendoline Christie

It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it. — Agatha Christie

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do. — Agatha Christie

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious. — Agatha Christie

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

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted. — Julie Christie

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. — Agatha Christie

He's a zealous fellow, but zeal can't really take the place of brains. — Agatha Christie

It's as easy to utter lies as truth — Agatha Christie

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express — Agatha Christie

One must make one's own mistakes — Agatha Christie

Mr. Satterthwaite's conversation was apt to be unduly burdened by mentions of his titled acquaintances. — Agatha Christie

I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle — Agatha Christie

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be. — Christie Brinkley

Fey ... a Scotch word ... It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know
it's too good to be true. — Agatha Christie

Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?
Miss Bulstrode's thoughts. — Agatha Christie

Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling. — Gwendoline Christie

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. — Christie Brinkley

Getting soft - that's the curse of the present day. — Agatha Christie

I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it. — Chris Christie

There was a moment's stupefied silence. Japp, who was the least surprised of any of us, was the first to speak. — Agatha Christie

She's a gipsy really. That's why she can't stay in houses. She wanders away and comes back again. — Agatha Christie

Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric. — Agatha Christie

You can't rightly estimate what a man will do when he's in drink. — Agatha Christie

Oh, my dear friend, it is impossible not to give oneself away - unless one never opens one's mouth! Speech is the deadliest of revealers. — Agatha Christie

It's awfully easy to appear silly, Mr. Clement. It's one of the easiest things in the world. — Agatha Christie

Why I call Barack Obama a petulant child. He's doing it on guns. He did it on immigration. He's done it on "Obama care." — Chris Christie

The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal," said Giles gloomily. "That's why one has a permanent feeling of guilt. — Agatha Christie

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time. — Sara Sheridan

It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy. — Agatha Christie

Leadership is not about me, it's about our country. — Chris Christie

When doing sports ... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin. — Christie Brinkley

My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor. — Gwendoline Christie

Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops. — Agatha Christie

No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest. — Agatha Christie

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know. — Agatha Christie

Sandra to Christie on Matt: So he's been a meanie today has he. The boy's got the subtlety of a brick to the head. I do apologize. — Svetlana Chmakova

Spider's Web * The Unexpected Guest — Agatha Christie

It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside. — Agatha Christie

Last night we had Bill Clinton, the former president. Security was as tight as Governor Christie's yoga pants. — David Letterman

In the end is my beginning ... That's a quotation I've often heard people say. — Agatha Christie

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation. — Chris Christie

If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well. — Christie Brinkley

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted. — Agatha Christie

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself. — Agatha Christie

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end. — Stephen Sondheim

I would be remiss when talking about beauty secrets to not say that one of the best is to care about the world around you. That's what really matters. — Christie Brinkley

Everyone's life has a tempo. Ruth's was presto whereas Miss Marple's was content to be adagio. — Agatha Christie

She had a great power of love and hate but no stability. That's what's so sad for anyone, to be born with no stability. — Agatha Christie

What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie. — Bill Maher

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's. — Agatha Christie

No woman respects a man when he's doing a thing thoroughly badly. — Agatha Christie

It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy? — Agatha Christie

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about
sentiment. — Agatha Christie

In everybody's life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known. — Agatha Christie

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. — Gwendoline Christie

My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine. — Agatha Christie

Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie? — Alexander McCall Smith

It's quite possible that the delusions of today may be the proved scientific facts of tomorrow. — Agatha Christie

Spider's Web * The Unexpected — Agatha Christie

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two. — Chris Christie

That's right," said Mrs. Oliver in an exasperated voice, "blame it all on me as usual! — Agatha Christie

Let's go to Russia. She [Hillary Clinton] went to the Kremlin on her very first visit and gave them that stupid symbolic reset button. — Chris Christie

And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left. — Agatha Christie

There's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be bid on at Christie's. — Ron Brackin

That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it. — Agatha Christie

I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. — Gwendoline Christie

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to Israel. He's going to be pretty disappointed when he finds out the Gaza Strip isn't a steak. — Jimmy Fallon

Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule, — Agatha Christie

There's no way to phrase this other than bluntly. Master Vos - the Council wants you to assassinate Count Dooku. — Christie Golden

Some things you cannot stop happening. — Christie Watson

Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty.' But the reader's plate is full — Agatha Christie

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance. — Agatha Christie

The more you give, the more you get - it's a cliche, but it's really true. — Christie Brinkley

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean. — Agatha Christie

It's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round. — Agatha Christie

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking. — Agatha Christie

Impossible. Not after everything that's happened. — Christie Golden

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace. — Christie Brinkley

This novel was the author's gift to her brother-in-law, who had — Agatha Christie

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. — Agatha Christie

Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?" "It's very much like photography really," said Dermot. "Quite a good comparison of yours. — Agatha Christie

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. — Agatha Christie

If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes. — Agatha Christie

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It's just that I am not really a safe person to be with. The life I'd lead wouldn't be a safe life. — Agatha Christie

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. — Agatha Christie

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government. — Chris Christie

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. — Agatha Christie

There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -"
"I am desolated!"
"That's a good boy! — Agatha Christie

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering. — Agatha Christie

For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back. — Agatha Christie

I did not tell you that Helena Andrenyi was Mrs. Armstrong's sister? — Agatha Christie

A diary is useful for recording the idiosyncrasies of other people - but not one's own. — Agatha Christie

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

I love autumn. It's so much richer than spring. — Agatha Christie

The cat is obeying its blood instinct when it plays with the mouse! It's made that way. — Agatha Christie