Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

"The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others but deprived of such nourishment it will reluctantly begin to think for itself- and such thinking remember is original thinking and may have valuable results."
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"The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others but deprived of such nourishment it will reluctantly begin to think for itself- and such thinking remember is original thinking and may have valuable results."
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
"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."
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
"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody."
Agatha Christie
"It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to."
Agatha Christie
"Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day."
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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"But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people."
Agatha Christie
"... It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside."
Agatha Christie
"One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers."
Agatha Christie
"Love can be a very frightening thing.”“That is why most great love stories are tragedies."
Agatha Christie
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness."
Agatha Christie
"I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies."
Agatha Christie
"And anyway who the devil should I want to murder"That would be a very good question," said Miss Marple. "I have not yet had the pleasure of sufficient conversation with you to evolve a theory as to that."Mr. Rafter's smile broadened."Conversations with you might be dangerous," he said."Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide," said Miss Marple."
Agatha Christie
"People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you."
Agatha Christie
"[Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don't know how that shadow is going to affect our lives."
Agatha Christie
"That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering..."
Agatha Christie
"Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head."
Agatha Christie
"Wwhat the hell? Weve all got to die sometime!"
Agatha Christie
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