Quotes Agatha Christie

"Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?"
- Agatha Christie (An Autobiography (1981))

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."
— Agatha Christie

"Never do anything yourself that others can do for you."
— 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 (An Autobiography)

"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
— Agatha Christie

"Poirot" I said. "I have been thinking."
An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it."
— Agatha Christie (Peril at End House)

"The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."
— Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)

"It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are."
— Agatha Christie (The Man in the Brown Suit)

"If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off."
— Agatha Christie

"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."
— Agatha Christie

"It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. "
— Agatha Christie

"I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries."
— Agatha Christie (Hallowe'en Party)

"The simplest explanation is always the most likely."
— Agatha Christie

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
— Agatha Christie

"Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists. "
— Agatha Christie (Murder in Mesopotamia)

"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble."
— Agatha Christie

"If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything."
— Agatha Christie

"Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture.
Miss Lemon: I don't even see that."
— Agatha Christie

"The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them...."
— Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None)

"Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know."
— Agatha Christie (Cat Among the Pigeons)

"I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them."
— Agatha Christie

"Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored."
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

"The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young peopLe are fools. (Jane Marple)"
— Agatha Christie (Murder at the Vicarage)

"She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read."
— Agatha Christie (Elephants Can Remember)

"No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is in not the most beautiful thought?
--Poirot"
— Agatha Christie

"At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true."
— Agatha Christie (Murder at the Vicarage)

"But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price."
— Agatha Christie

"One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers."
— Agatha Christie

"Time is the best killer."
— Agatha Christie

"When ingaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach."
— Agatha Christie

"Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master."
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

"To every problem, there is a most simple solution."
— Agatha Christie (The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mystery)

"A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep."
— Agatha Christie (Le Train Bleu)

"If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid."
— Agatha Christie

"It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap."
— Agatha Christie (Murder at the Vicarage)

"I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties."
— Agatha Christie

"To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure."
— Agatha Christie

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing."
— Agatha Christie

"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

"There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well"
— Agatha Christie

"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
— Agatha Christie

"Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best."
— Agatha Christie (The Secret Adversary)

"He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control."
— Agatha Christie

"At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled."
— Agatha Christie

"An appreciative listener is always stimulating."
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

"Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go."
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

"When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!"
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas."
— Agatha Christie

"If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect."
— Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)

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