Agatha Christie Quotes

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

I think like a detective.

With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

I am inclined to think -' said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

I'm very good at solving mysteries.

Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on his intuition and experience.

I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

It is quite a three-pipe problem.

You know my methods. Apply them.

He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?