Agatha Christie Quotes

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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.

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

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

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

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

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Fear is incomplete knowledge

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

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.

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]

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.

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've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.