Words matter. These are the best Agatha Christie Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
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 best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
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.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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.
Evil is not something superhuman, it’s something less than human.
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.
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.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
Very few of us are what we seem.
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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.
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.
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.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
