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
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and… — 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
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
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
“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
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 avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Handsome, strong, gay ... She felt again the thro and lilt of her blood. She had loved Kameni in that moment. She… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in… — 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
“People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an… — 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
“Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am… — 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
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. — 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
“One doesn't recognize in one's life the really important moments - not until it's too late.” — 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
“It would mean a good film, the story that you have recounted to me there - but it bears no sort of… — 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
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
