Agatha Christie Quotes

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

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

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

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.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

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

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

You should employ your little grey cells.

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

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.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

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.

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.

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.

He laughs best who laughs at the end.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

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

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

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

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

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