“But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It wasn't what you were born to, and no good comes from getting out of your station in life.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.” — 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
In everybody's life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. . . . We've only one life to live.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Trains are wonderful… To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerablle to temptation. (Mr. Barnes)” — 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
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Life is a difficult business... It needs infinite courage and a lot of endurance. And in the end one wonders: 'Was it… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Underneath the quarrels,the misunderstandings, the apparent hostility of everyday life, a real and true affection can exist. Married life, I mused, as… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Their country-place, Styles Court, had been purchased by Mr. Cavendish early in their married life. He had been completely under his wife’s… — 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
“It is curious to look back over life, over all the varying incidents and scenes - such a multitude of odds and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living.… — 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
I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That… — 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
“Life is really like a ship–the interior of a ship, that is. It has watertight compartments. You emerge from one, seal and… — 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… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life. — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Exactly, Hastings. And that is where the gambler (and the murderer, who is, after all, only a supreme kind of gambler since… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it's your theme,… — 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