Agatha Christie

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking

A rich man and his money are not so easily parted. Me, I have seen a well-known millionaire turn out a tramful of people to seek for a dropped halfpenny.

... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

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

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

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.

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

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

Unless you are good at guessing it is not much use being a detective.

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

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

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

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The human face is after all nothing more nor less than a mask.

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

When engaged in eating the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

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.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

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

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

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

The difference between being in a relationship and being in prison is that in prisons they let you play softball on the weekends.

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

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

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

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Very few of us are what we seem.

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.

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.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

A mothers love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law no pity it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

Theres nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

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

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

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.

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

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

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

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

The young people think that the old people are fools; but the old people know that the young people are fools!

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.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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