Agatha Christie Quotes

"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story."

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

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

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

"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody."

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

"Never do anything yourself that others can do for you."

"Very few of us are what we seem."

"Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity."

"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."

"Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity"

"The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed 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."

"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger"

"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."

"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."

"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 any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her."

"But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price."

"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."

"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."