Agatha Christie Quotes & Quotations
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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. - Dame Agatha Christie
Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax. - Dame Agatha Christie
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. - Dame Agatha Christie
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you. - Dame Agatha Christie
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. - Dame Agatha Christie
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. - Dame Agatha Christie
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. - Dame Agatha Christie
Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder! - Dame Agatha Christie
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. - Dame Agatha Christie
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. - Dame Agatha Christie
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. - Dame Agatha Christie
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. - Dame Agatha Christie
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. - Dame Agatha Christie
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. - Dame Agatha Christie
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. - Dame Agatha Christie
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. - Dame Agatha Christie
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. - Dame Agatha Christie
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. - Dame Agatha Christie
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. - Dame Agatha Christie
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. - Dame Agatha Christie
Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them. - Dame Agatha Christie
Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax. - Dame Agatha Christie
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. - Dame Agatha Christie
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you. - Dame Agatha Christie
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. - Dame Agatha Christie
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. - Dame Agatha Christie
Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder! - Dame Agatha Christie
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. - Dame Agatha Christie
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. - Dame Agatha Christie
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. - Dame Agatha Christie
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. - Dame Agatha Christie
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. - Dame Agatha Christie
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. - Dame Agatha Christie
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. - Dame Agatha Christie
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. - Dame Agatha Christie
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. - Dame Agatha Christie
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. - Dame Agatha Christie
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. - Dame Agatha Christie
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. - Dame Agatha Christie
Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them. - Dame Agatha Christie