Agatha Christie Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Family #Crush #Mom

“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 #Wisdom #Dog

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

#Love #Funny #Birthday

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

#Love You #Literature #Pay

“It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)”
-- Agatha Christie

#People #Violence #Doe

“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Peace #War #Winning

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Literature

“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 #Cute #Confused

“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

#Inspirational #Life #Happiness

“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Character #Individuality #Everyday

“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Education #Children #Learning

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Ignored #Instinct

“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Imagination #Too Much #Elegance

“Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Tea #Cups #Said

“I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.”
-- Agatha Christie

#People #Mad #Eccentric

“It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Running #Strong #Book

“Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Eggs #Peculiar #Noise

“It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.”
-- Agatha Christie

#People #Wiping Out #Detective Work

“When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Men #Islands #Sea

“There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Character #Men #Feet

“An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Appreciative

“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”
-- Agatha Christie

#Tea #Everyday #Ordinary

“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

#Happiness #Suffering #Atheism

“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

#Death #Waiting #Dying

“To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..”
-- Agatha Christie

#Joy #Sorrow #Care

“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Deceiving

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
-- Agatha Christie

#Inspirational #Life #Impossible

“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

#Believe #Book #Memorable

“In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)”
-- Agatha Christie

#Impossible #Arise #Conversation

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

#Principles #Literature #Sticks