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Agatha Christie
English
Writer
About the author
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
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.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Will
#World
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Love
#People
#Thought
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Principles
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.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#People
#Writing
#Worry
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Interest
#Quiet
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Evil
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.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Trouble
#Necessity
#Mother
#Invention
#Opinion
#Idleness
#Laziness
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.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Living
#Sorrow
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Life
#Moments
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.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Time
#Now
#Will
#Waiting
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Life
#Childhood
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Time
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#People
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.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Right
#Life
#People
#Years
#Popular
#Idea
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Nothing
#World
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Eternity
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Reason
#Advice
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.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#First
#Justice
#Victims
#Mercy
Very few of us are what we seem.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Money
#Trust
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.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#World
#Quiet
#Dogs
#Wounds
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#God
#Man
#Free will
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Woman
#Husband
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#People
#Habits
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.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Will
#Crime
#Mind
#Actions
#Soul
#Attitude
#Habits
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.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Sorrow
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Love
#Man
#Woman
#Fool
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Old
#Friend
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
Agatha Christie,
English
Writer
#Love