Agatha Christie quotes

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. (Agatha Christie)
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Agatha Christie
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
Agatha Christie
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
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie
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
Very few of us are what we seem.
Agatha Christie
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Agatha Christie
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
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
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. (Agatha Christie)
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
Agatha Christie
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
Agatha Christie
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Agatha Christie
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Agatha Christie
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
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
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Agatha Christie
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. (Agatha Christie)
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
Agatha Christie
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Agatha Christie
I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."
Agatha Christie