"Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off because they were not his own eyebrows, but false on...
Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
More Agatha Christie quotes
"...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.
"But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.
"Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.
"The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or...
"Don’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.
"When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
"I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. ...
"There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hy...
"Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.
"The two words expressed volumes.
"There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so d...
"It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.
"For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs t...
"Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person know...