Agatha Christie Quotes About Perception

Life is only one of the Great Illusions.

It’s dangerous to think back, one becomes quite positive about something that never existed.

It was so hard to get an idea of people you had never seen. You had to rely on other people’s judgment, and Emily had never yet acknowledged that any other person’s judgment was superior to her own. Other people’s impressions were no good to you. They might be just as true as yours but you couldn’t act on them. You couldn’t, as it were, use another person’s angle of attack.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

How strange that a girl could trouble your inmost soul so long as she kept her mouth shut, and that the moment she spoke the glamour could vanish as though it had never been.

Dyspepsia is responsible for many a reputation for romantic melancholy or ungovernable rages.

After all, perhaps dirt isn’t really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe!

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves.

A clue of two feet long is every bit as valuable as one measuring two millimetres! But it is the romantic idea that all important clues must be infinitesimal.