“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
More children suffer from interference than from non-interference. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Only mothers can’t say they don’t want their children and just go away.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child? Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Poirot sighed. He said “The world is yours, the new heaven and the new earth. In your new world, my children, let… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I have, to begin with, an incurably romantic imagination. The practice of throwing a bottle into the sea with an important document… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“A child says ‘Thank God for my good dinner’. What can I say at seventy-five? ‘Thank God for my good life, and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child:… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“A child says ‘Thank God for my good dinner’. What can I say at seventy-five? ‘Thank God for my good life, and for all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Either her dream had taken a very odd turn or else - or else Mary had really rushed into the room and had said… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“The old gentleman refuses to have the telephone which he regards as a device of the devil, and on a par with radio, television,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“That’s how they do it, these girls! Othello charmed Desdemona by telling her stories, but, oh, didn’t Desdemona charm Othello by the way she… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
