I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“You would hate people if you were like me… If you weren’t wanted.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out! — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them. — 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
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. — 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
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She… — 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
