Quotes from Agatha Christie

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

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

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

Hate doesn't last. Love does.

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

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

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that there is no more death...

People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

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

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.

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

Love can be a very frightening thing.""That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

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

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

A man in love is an awful sight.

The human mind prefers to be spoonfed 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.