Agatha Christie Quotes - Page 5

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

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

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

... nothing is so boring as devotion.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

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.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.