Quotes by Agatha Christie

“I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesnt come back.”

“The best time to plan a book is while youre doing the dishes.”

“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 doesnt luckily have to bother about that.”

“I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.”

“Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutelymiserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quitecertainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“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.”

“We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or voluntary.”

“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”

“Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.”

“Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.”

“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.”

“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.”

“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself”

“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”

“The metaphor is perhaps one of mans most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.”

“He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.”

“If you dont ask, you dont get.”

“If were not supposed to eat animals, how come theyre made out of meat?”

“I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men”