Quotes by Agatha Christie

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered long afterwards with the utmost fidelity, driven in, as it were, by the mental stress of the moment. It may be some quite irrelevant detail, like the pattern of a wallpaper, but it will never be forgotten.

Ive always jumped on sentiment—and here I am being more sentimental than anybody. What idiots girls are! Ive always thought so. I suppose I shall sleep with his photograph under my pillow, and dream about him all night. Its dreadful to feel youve been false to your principles.

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

The innocent must not suffer.

It is so unkind-- Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

Dont you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrodes thoughts.

But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves.

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. Thats bound to be. Thats living. But later theres a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. Thats when individuality has a chance.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to ones friends and ones family and ones caste.

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

Its astonishing in this world how things dont turn out at all the way you expect them to.

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

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

A mothers love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

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.

The human mind prefers to be spoonfed 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.

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.

Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living.