Agatha Christie Quotes

Agatha Christie Quote

Very few of us are what we seem.
Agatha Christie

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

Age, Best, Husband

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

Through, Living, Sometimes

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

Wise, Away, Whole

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

Sympathy, Through, Sometimes

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Agatha Christie

Life, Happy, Happen

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.
Agatha Christie

Justice, Put, Often

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha Christie

God, Free, Evils

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

Evil, Human, Less

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

Life, Important, Until

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

Love, Fool, Woman

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Agatha Christie

Life, Through, Child

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

Married, Older, Grow

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

Anybody, Principles, Sticks

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie

Good, Happy, Give

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

Good, Give, Advice

These little grey cells. It is up to them.
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

Love, Thought, Looking

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

Attitude, Mind, Try

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

Friend, Old, Somebody

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

Story, Ridiculous, City

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

Love, Everything, Pay

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
Agatha Christie

Why, Themselves, Unhappy

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

Nothing, Child, Stranger

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

Everything, Eternity, Existed

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: September 15, 1890

Died: January 12, 1976

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