Agatha Christie Quotes

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.

It's a curious thought, but it's only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Suddenly you find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you,...as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

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

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

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

He [Hercule Poirot] tapped his forehead. ‘These little grey cells. It is “up to them”.

War settles nothing… to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one!

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

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 best time to plan a book is while you are doing the dishes.

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.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Very few of us are what we seem.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

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