Top 382 Quotes & Sayings by Agatha Christie
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer Agatha Christie.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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.
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
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.
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Very few of us are what we seem.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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.
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.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
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.
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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.
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?
Books are a habit-forming drug.
Assumptions are dangerous things.
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
... nothing is so boring as devotion.
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.
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.
The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
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