Quotes from Agatha Christie

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

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.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

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

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

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

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

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

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.

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.

Very few of us are what we seem.

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.

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