30+ Agatha Christie Quotes to Inspire Mystery, Wisdom, and Human Insight
- September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976
- British
- Author
- The detective novel series (such as “And Then There Were None”) featuring the fictional detectives “Hercule Poirot” and “Miss Marple” became a worldwide hit.
- “There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”
- “It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”
- “Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.”
- “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.”
- “If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.”
- “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.”
- “One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.”
- “Very few of us are what we seem.”
- “The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love 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.”
- “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.”
- “I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.”
- “Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.”
- “Evil is not something superhuman, it’s something less than human.”
- “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.”
- “The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”
- “But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.”
- “I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.”
- “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.”
- “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
- “Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.”
- “Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give 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.”
- “There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.”
- “Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.”
- “Never do anything yourself that others can do for 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.”
- “Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.”
- “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.”
- “These little grey cells. It is up to them.”