Agatha Christie Quotes About Deception

If it is necessary for a criminal to be a consummate actress, then by all means assume her to be one.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

Frauds, most of them. Ready enough to tell you vague things about the past, but won’t commit themselves as to the future.

Everyone concerned in them has something to hide.

Appearances are not everything. Even an old-established firm with palatial showrooms and every appearance of prosperity may rest on a rotten basis. And what does one do then? Does one run about crying out that times are hard? No, one buys a new and luxurious car. One spends a little more money than usual. One lives a little more ostentatiously. For credit, see you, is everything! But sometimes a monumental business has crashed – for no more than a few thousand pounds – of ready money.

An alibi, it is a very pestilential thing, and always open to the gravest suspicion.

A woman who doesn’t lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.