Agatha Christie

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."
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"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 Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
"In the midst of life, we are in death."
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None
"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
"There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well."
Agatha Christie Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
Agatha Christie
"It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down."
Agatha Christie The Clocks
"But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things."
Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express
"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas."
Agatha Christie Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
"I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate."
Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage
"A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep."
Agatha Christie The Mystery of the Blue Train
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
Agatha Christie
"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
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
Agatha Christie
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
Agatha Christie
"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."
Agatha Christie
"These little grey cells. It is up to them."
Agatha Christie
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."
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
"Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living."
Agatha Christie
"We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then."
Agatha Christie
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