Agatha Christie Quotes About Observation

So full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

Sitting here with one’s knitting, one just sees the facts.

Les femmes. They are marvellous! They invent haphazard – and by miracle they are right. Not that it is that, really. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together – and they call the result intuition.

To make a success of humanity, we must profit by the lessons of those below us in the animal kingdom.

These little grey cells. It is “up to them” – as you say over here.

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

One has only to let the criminal talk – sooner or later he will tell you everything.

Nothing can be so misleading as observation.

It is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.