Agatha Christie Quotes

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

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.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

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.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

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

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.