Agatha Christie Quotes - 9quotes.com

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Written by Agatha Christie
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.
Written by Agatha Christie
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Written by Agatha Christie
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Written by Agatha Christie
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
Written by Agatha Christie
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.
Written by 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.
Written by Agatha Christie
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.
Written by Agatha Christie
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.
Written by Agatha Christie
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.
Written by Agatha Christie
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.
Written by Agatha Christie
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Written by Agatha Christie
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Written by Agatha Christie
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Written by Agatha Christie
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Written by Agatha Christie
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
Written by 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.
Written by Agatha Christie
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
Written by Agatha Christie
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
Written by Agatha Christie
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.
Written by Agatha Christie
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Written by Agatha Christie
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Written by Agatha Christie
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Written by Agatha Christie
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Written by Agatha Christie
Very few of us are what we seem.
Written by Agatha Christie
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
Written by Agatha Christie
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Written by Agatha Christie
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Written by Agatha Christie
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.
Written by Agatha Christie
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Written by Agatha Christie

Join our feeds to automatically receive the latest headlines, news, and information formatted for your club's website or news reader.

Social connect: