Oh, please tell me we're not doing the Poirot thing again — the suspects in the library with the candlestick or whatever'. Max looked at him [DCI Cotton]. 'Fruitcake in this case. And what would you prefer? A car chase? It’s the most efficient way to flush out a killer, as Dame Agatha Christie well knew.

— G.M. Malliet

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

— Dylan Thomas

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

— Agatha Christie

The discovery of an interaction among the four hems made it obvious that they must be touching, but in science what is obvious is not necessarily true. When the structure of hemoglobin was finally solved, the hems were found to lie in isolated pockets on the surface of the subunits. Without contact between them how could one of them sense whether the others had combined with oxygen? And how could as heterogeneous a collection of chemical agents as protons, chloride ions, carbon dioxide, and diphosphoglycerate influence the oxygen equilibrium curve similarly? It did not seem plausible that any of them could bind directly to the hems or that all of them could bind at any other common site, although there again it turned out we were wrong. To add to the mystery, none of these agents affected the oxygen equilibrium of myoglobin or of isolated subunits of hemoglobin. We now know that all the cooperative effects disappear if the hemoglobin molecule is merely split in half, but this vital clue was missed. Like Agatha Christie, Nature kept it to the last to make the story more exciting. There are two ways out of an impasse in science: to experiment or to think. By temperament, perhaps, I experimented, whereas Jacques Monod thought.

— Max F. Perutz

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 Isaac stein, or Paraná - though not one or the other in particular. He was not definitely Jewish, nor definitely Greek nor Portuguese nor Spanish, nor South American. What did seem highly unlikely was that he was an Englishman called Robinson?

— Agatha Christie

There is at Christmastime a great deal of hypocrisy, honorable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour LE on motif, c'est extend, but nevertheless hypocrisy!

— Agatha Christie

There is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.

— Agatha Christie

The two words expressed volumes.

— Agatha Christie

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

— Agatha Christie

Use your little gray cells' Mon AMI" (Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles')

— - Agatha Christie