Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 3

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

Time is the best killer.

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.

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.

It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

With thought, all problems can be resolved.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

One must make one's own mistakes

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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

The past is the father of the present.

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.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.