Agatha Christie (born 15 September 1890, Torquay, Devon, England – died 12 January 1976, Wallingford, Oxfordshire) was a mystery writer. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. Her most notable creations are detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Guinness World Records lists Agatha Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love 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.Very few of us are what we seem.Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.Fear is incomplete knowledge.Time is the best killer.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.
Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon; One said he'd stay there and then there were seven. Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six. Six little Indian boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little Indian boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little Indian boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little Indian boys walking in the Zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.
Agatha Christie
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.The secret of getting ahead is getting started.Two people rarely see the same thing.People should be interested in books, not their authors.Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken.Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.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.
As a matter of fact it wouldn’t be safe to tell any man the truth about his wife! Funnily enough, I’d trust most women with the truth about their husbands. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
Agatha Christie
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory – let the theory go.It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.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.The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.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.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.In the midst of life, we are in death.
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
Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.An appreciative listener is always stimulating.Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.To every problem, there is a most simple solution.I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.No innocent person ever has an alibi.Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.
Agatha Christie
Books are a habit-forming drug.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.Nothing turns out quite in the way that you thought it would when you are sketching out notes for the first chapter, or walking about muttering to yourself and seeing a story unroll.The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
