Quotes by Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

Happiness

Very few of us are what we seem.

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

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

— Agatha Christie

Life

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.

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

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.

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

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

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

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.

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

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

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

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.

— Agatha Christie

Life

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.

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

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.

— Agatha Christie

Life

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

— Agatha Christie

Love

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

— Agatha Christie

Love

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

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

— Agatha Christie

Success

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

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

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

— Agatha Christie

Love

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

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

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

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

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

— Agatha Christie

Wisdom

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

— Agatha Christie

Life

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

— Agatha Christie

Life