Agatha Christie Quotes
"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Will, World)
"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story."
- Agatha Christie
"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Love, Thought, People)
"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Principles)
"I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: People, Worry, Writing)
"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Interest, Quiet)
"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Evil)
"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Mother, Idleness, Invention, Laziness, Necessity, Opinion, Trouble)
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Living, Sorrow)
"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Life, Moments)
"I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Time, Now, Waiting, Will)
"I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me."
- Agatha Christie
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Life, Childhood)
"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Time)
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: People)
"The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Life, People, Idea, Popular, Right, Years)
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Agatha Christie
"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Nothing, World)
"Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Eternity)
"These little grey cells. It is up to them."
- Agatha Christie
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Advice, Reason)
"Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: First, Justice, Mercy, Victims)
"Very few of us are what we seem."
- Agatha Christie
"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Money, Trust)
"Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Dogs, Quiet, World, Wounds)
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: God, Free will, Man)
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Husband, Woman)
"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: People, Habits)
"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Soul, Attitude, Actions, Crime, Habits, Mind, Will)
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Sorrow)
"Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Love, Fool, Man, Woman)
"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Friend, Old)
"But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Love)