Subject: Doctors
Quote: “I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don’t know what is the matter with you.”
Character: Miss Jane Marple
Chapter/Story: 6—“The Thumb Mark of St. Peter”
Book Title/Copyright: The Tuesday Club Murders, 1928
Agatha Christie was a fount of wisdom, humor, and opinion on a wide variety of topics ranging from Breakfast to Sleep. This blog is devoted to sharing memorable quotes from Christie's oeuvre.
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This site contains over 300 quotes covering 100 subjects that Agatha Christie commented on in her books. Click on any one of the subjects in the List of Subjects (below left) to read what Christie wrote about that topic. Full bibliographic information is included: book title, chapter or story, publication date, and the source character (or Christie as the omniscient narrator).
This blog is up-dated frequently, but in order to maintain an alphabetical Subject List, all new additions are post-dated. If you can't find the quote you're looking for, or if you arrived here by Googling "worst Agatha Christie book," I might be able to help. Send me an email at lydacher@gmail.com.
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- Action
- Actors
- Age
- Airports
- Americans
- Assumptions
- Attractiveness
- Breakfast
- Britons
- Cats
- Christmas Stress
- Class Distinctions
- Common Sense
- Compromise
- Context
- Criminality
- Death & Dying
- Democracy
- Detective Methods
- Devotion
- Doctors
- Dogs
- Dogsbody
- Drunkenness
- Earwigs
- Enemies
- Enthusiasm
- Evil
- Exaggeration
- Eyes
- Fidelity
- Fighter
- Flattery
- Gardening
- Gossip
- Habits
- Horses
- Human Behavior
- Human Nature
- Humility
- Hypocrisy
- Immodesty
- Insight, Intuition, & Imagination
- Jealousy
- Jigsaw Puzzles
- Juries
- Knocking
- Leadership
- Life & Fate
- Listening
- Loneliness
- Love
- Madness
- Malice
- Matrimony & Divorce
- Men
- Money
- Murder(ers)
- Mustaches
- Names
- Observation
- Obsession
- Order and Method
- Parenting
- Past, Present, Future
- Patience
- Physics & Metaphysics
- Physiology
- Politeness
- Possessiveness
- Premonition
- Pride
- Rabbits
- Reincarnation
- Risk & Safety
- St. Elizabeth
- Self-Confidence
- Sinks
- Sleep
- Spanish Proverb
- Steel Bands
- Stupidity
- Success
- Suicide
- Tact
- Thankfulness
- Tradition
- Travel
- Trouble
- Trust
- Truth & Deception
- Underdog
- Vanity
- Voice
- Wages of Sin
- War, Effects of
- Women
- Work Ethic
- World Order
- The Worst
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