Miss Marple Quotes

“It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

“People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.”
― Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced

“I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?'

Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies.

'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.'

'Nemesis? And what does that mean?'

'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?”
― Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger

“Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle appealing manner- Miss Wetherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. Of the two Miss Marple is the more dangerous.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple”
― Agatha Christie, The Thumbmark of St. Peter

“It has just happened that I have found myself in the vicinity of murder rather more often than would seem normal.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.”
― Agatha Christie

“One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Ah, I see you are an actress, Miss Marple, as well as an avenger.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“Pünd remembered their first case together when Fraser had failed to notice that his travelling companion, on the three-fifty train from Paddington, was actually dead.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders

“Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them.”
― Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington

“Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use."
"And that's fair enough," sighed Craddock. "If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!”
― Agatha Christie

“How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock.”
― Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

“It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon at the Vicarage.”
― Agatha Christie

“You could ask your bank manager’s advice, you know, Miss Marple. It really is- one never knows when one wants something for a rainy day.’
‘The only thing I shall want for a rainy day will be my umbrella,’ said Miss Marple.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Miss Marple queried the word sharply. ‘Love?’
‘One of the most frightening words there is in the world,’ said Elizabeth Temple.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“She considered herself with proper humility. She was inquisitive, she asked questions, she was the sort of age and type that could be expected to ask questions. That was one point, a possible point. You could send a private detective round to ask questions, or some psychological investigator, but it was true that you could much more easily send an elderly lady with a habit of snooping and being inquisitive, of talking too much, of wanting to find out about things, and it would seem perfectly natural.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“But no matter. Mrs. Protheroe is met at the studio by Mr. Redding. They go in together — and, human nature being what it is, I'm afraid they realise that I shan't leave the garden till they come out again!"

I had never liked Miss Marple better than at this moment, with her humorous perception of her own weakness.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“With a sweeping gesture she indicated Miss Marple. Miss Marple had finished the fleecy knitting and was now engaged with a crochet hook and a ball of cotton. "That's my expert," said Mrs. Dane Calthrop. "Jane Marple. Look at her well. I tell you, that woman knows more about the different kinds of human wickedness than anyone I've ever known.”
― Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger

“There were people who would have smiled in gentle derision at this pronouncement on the part of an old-fashioned old lady who could hardly be expected to be an authority on nymphomania, and indeed it was not a word that Miss Marple would have used—her own phrase would have been “always too fond of men.” But Lady Selina accepted her opinion as a confirmation of her own.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel