Agatha Christie

Quote: Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: 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]

Quote: I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: 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]

Quote: Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: 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]

Quote: 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]

Quote: 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]

Quote: 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]

Quote: I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: 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]

Quote: If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: 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]

Quote: It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: 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]

Quote: Never do anything yourself that others can do for you. [Agatha Christie]

Quote: One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. [Agatha Christie]

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