“My whole belief in life was based on the fact that [she] loved me.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Tell him we thank him and we will pray for him." Hercule Poirot said gently: "He needs your prayers." "Is he then… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Life was not a matter of safety— it must be hazarded to win the game.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“There is a great deal of wickedness in village life. I hope you dear young people will never realize how very wicked… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“i like living. i have sometimes been wildly, dispairingly, acutely misrable, racked with sarrow, but threw it all i still know quite… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One does not live because one's reason assents to living. People who,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It was Anthony Marston who disagreed with the majority. 'A bit unsporting, what?' he said. 'Ought to ferret out the mystery before… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The Kiddles had come and conquered. Life was stronger than death.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“What odd things really, when one collects them all together, one DOES remember out of one's life. One remembers happy occasions, one… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I hoped for the best,' said Miss Marple. 'One cannot go through life without attracting certain risks if they are necessary.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
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.... — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Life is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“That’s what you might call the normal pattern of female life. I’ve seen many girls and women, with strong maternal instincts, keen… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Life is always dangerous—never forget that. In the end, perhaps, not only great natural forces, but the work of our own hands… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“To be part of something one doesn't in the least understand is, I think, one of the most intriguing things about life.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
