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

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Agatha Christie

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

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

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie

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

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Agatha Christie

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

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

These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Agatha Christie

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

Very few of us are what we seem.
Agatha Christie

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie