Agatha Christie Quotes About Instinct

The body – the cage – is everything of the most respectable – but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

Man is an animal very delicately balanced. He has one prime necessity – to survive. To advance too quickly is as fatal as to lag behind. He must survive! He must, perhaps, retain some of the old savagery, but he must not – no definitely he must not – deify it!

When a man’s neck’s in danger, he doesn’t stop to think too much about sentiment.

There are all sorts of deep instincts in man of which he himself is unaware. The craving for blood – the demand for sacrifice!

The point is that one’s got an instinct to live. One doesn’t live because one’s reason assents to living. People who, as we say, ‘would be better dead,’ don’t want to die! People who apparently have got everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven’t got the energy to fight.

The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.

The crime passionel! The primitive instinct – to kill! So closely allied to the sex instinct.

Talk of woman’s instinct – why, it is well known all the world over that a woman is the surest mark for any rascally swindler. Not one in ten of them knows a scoundrel when she meets one.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.