Agatha Christie Quotes

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.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

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.

Very few of us are what we seem.

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

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.

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

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

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.

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

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

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.

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

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

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

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

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.

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

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

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

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

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

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

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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

It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

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

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

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

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

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

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

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

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

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.

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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.

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.