Agatha Christie on Friendship

"It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years."

"We shall not hunt together again, my friend. Our first hunt was here — and our last … They were good days, Yes, they have been good days..."

"Exactly! It is absurd — improbable — it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts."

"Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend."

"Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort."

"‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American — here in Paris! A nasal voice — the chewing gum — the little goatee — the horned-rimmed spectacles — all the appurtenances of the stage American…’"

"Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend."

"Is it coding — or code breaking? Is it like Deborah’s job? Do be careful, Tommy, people go queer doing that and can’t sleep and walk about all night groaning and repeating 978345286 or something like that and finally have nervous breakdowns and go into homes."

"The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist."