Quotes by Agatha Christie

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”

“Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if hes in love with her.”

“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.”

“One doesnt recognize the really important moments in ones life until its too late.”

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but thats no reason not to give it”

“Very few of us are what we seem.”

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they dont give a damn.”

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”

“Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity”

“I dont think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.”

“The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.”

“If one sticks too rigidly to ones principles, one would hardly see anybody.”

“Most successes are unhappy. Thats why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.”

“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.”

“But it is always interesting when one doesnt see, she added. If you dont see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way around.”

“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”

“Ive 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.”

“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.”

“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger”

“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.”