An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

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

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

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.
Agatha Christie

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

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Agatha Christie

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
Agatha Christie

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Agatha Christie

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


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.
Agatha Christie

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.
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.
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.
Agatha Christie

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

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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.
Agatha Christie

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

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Agatha Christie

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