Agatha Christie on Mind
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Agatha Christie, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
This page displays 9 quotations attributed to Agatha Christie and filed under "mind" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Agatha Christie, entry #99776: "“The English are very stupid,” said Poirot. “They think that they can deceive anyone but that no one can deceive them."
Attributed to Agatha Christie, entry #237721: "An Englishman thinks first of his work — his job, he calls it — and then of his sport, and last — a good way last — of his wife."
9 Quotes by Agatha Christie on Mind
"“The English are very stupid,” said Poirot. “They think that they can deceive anyone but that no one can deceive them."
"An Englishman thinks first of his work — his job, he calls it — and then of his sport, and last — a good way last — of his wife."
"There is no such thing as muddle — obscurity, yes — but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain."
"Never mind. I knew — that was the great thing."
"Well, of course, Gwenda dear, you can always do that when you’ve exhausted every other line of approach, but I always think myself it’s better to examine the simplest and most commonplace explanations first."
"But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method — a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence!"
"I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not — how shall I express it? — a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain — I think an Anglo-Saxon brain."
"Looking back, it seems to me extraordinary that we should have contemplated having both a nurse and a servant, but they were considered essentials of life in those days, and were the last things we would have thought of dispensing with. To have committed the extravagance of a car, for instance, would never have entered our minds. Only the rich had cars."
"When you were a child, I loved you. I loved your grave face and the confidence with which you came to me, asking me to mend your broken toys. And then, after eight years' absence, you came again and sat here, and brought me the thoughts that were in your mind. And your mind, Renisenb, is not like the minds of the rest of your family. It does not turn in upon itself, seeking to encase itself in narrow walls. Your mind is like my mind, it looks over the River, seeing a world of changes, of new ideas - seeing a world where all things are possible to those with courage and vision..."