Quotes from Agatha Christie

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

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

As a matter of fact it wouldn't be safe to tell any man the truth about his wife! Funnily enough, I'd trust most women with the truth about their husbands. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

Time is the best killer.

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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

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

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

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

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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.

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

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.