Agatha Christie on Humor
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Agatha Christie, catalogued under humor, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Agatha Christie, entry #160000: "‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it — none whatever,’ said Pirot severely."
Attributed to Agatha Christie, entry #83767: "He could have shot her from behind a hedge in the good old Irish fashion and probably got away with it."
9 Quotes by Agatha Christie on Humor
"‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it — none whatever,’ said Pirot severely."
"He could have shot her from behind a hedge in the good old Irish fashion and probably got away with it."
"Flattery, in Tuppence’s opinion, should always be laid on with a trowel where a man is concerned."
"I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them."
"Without interest but with perfect efficiently, Miss Lemon had fulfilled her task."
"I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us — listening. one of us"
"Now there is no murder without a motive."
"The rottenness comes from within."
"I don't think I shall ever forget my first sight of Hercule Poirot. Of course, I got used to him later on, but to begin with it was a shock, and I think everyone else must have felt the same! I don't know what I'd imagined — something like Sherlock Holmes — Of course, I knew he was a foreigner, but I hadn't expected him to be quite as foreign as he was, if you know what I mean. When you saw him you just wanted to laugh! He was like something on the stage or at the pictures. He looked like a hairdresser in a comic play!"