Agatha Christie Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

  Agatha Christie

  Order, Life Is Like, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Sad cypress”

• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

  Agatha Christie

  Life, Retirement, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

• You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

  Agatha Christie

  Attitude, Selfish, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

• Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

  Agatha Christie

  Hands, Clothes, Life And Death

• Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

  Agatha Christie

  Feelings, Emotion, Felt

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (Poirot)”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

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