Agatha Christie
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.Collection: God
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Sympathy
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.Collection: Life
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.Collection: Age
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Attitude
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.Collection: Best
These little grey cells. It is up to them.Collection: Intelligence
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.Collection: Good
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.
Very few of us are what we seem.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
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.
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.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
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.
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.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
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.
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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.Collection: People
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.Collection: Simple
The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.Collection: Things In Life
Fear is incomplete knowledge.Collection: Incomplete Knowledge
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.Collection: Accompany Us
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.Collection: Thinking
Assumptions are dangerous things.Collection: Assumption
No innocent person ever has an alibi.Collection: Innocent Person
I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?Collection: Essence
Books are a habit-forming drug.Collection: Book
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.Collection: Faces
you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.Collection: People
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.Collection: Weakness
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.Collection: Faces
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.Collection: May
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.Collection: Mistake
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.Collection: Beautiful