Agatha Christie Quotes

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”

“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.”

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

“Time is the best killer.”

“It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.”

“I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.”

“Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.”

“Fear is incomplete knowledge.”

“The past is the father of the present.”

“Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”

“The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.”

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

“Words are only the outer clothing of ideas.”

“He laughs best who laughs at the end.”

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”

“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”

“Very few of us are what we seem.”

“Two people rarely see the same thing.”

“Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”