Agatha Christie Quotes

English - Writer September 15, 1890 - January 12, 1976

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

Agatha Christie

Life Childhood Happy Think You

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

Agatha Christie

Good Advice Always Good Advice

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

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City New York Story New

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.

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Sometimes Know Sorrow Living

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

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Life Moments Important Late

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Agatha Christie

Time Everything Eternity Lingers

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

Agatha Christie

Love You Price Everything Pay

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

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Good Happy People Damn

Very few of us are what we seem.

Agatha Christie

Us Very Few Seem

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

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Evil Human Something Than

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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

World Unhappy Will Why

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.

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Mother Think Opinion Laziness

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.

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Justice Innocent Need Too Much

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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Intelligence Grey Up Little Cells

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

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People Curious Never Things

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 World Quiet More

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

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See Principles Anybody Would

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

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Woman Best Age Husband

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Agatha Christie

Friend Old Every Somebody

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 People Thought You

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Agatha Christie

Quiet Interest Domestic Specialize

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 Soul Mind You

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 Sometimes Know Sorrow

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

Agatha Christie

Love Woman Man Fool

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

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Trust Money Nobody Concerned

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.

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Life People Child Go

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