Who on Earth is Agatha Christie?

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

“Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.”

“Fear is incomplete knowledge.”

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

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

“He laughs best who laughs at the end.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“The past is the father of the present.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

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

“Time is the best killer.”

“Two people rarely see the same thing.”

“Very few of us are what we seem.”

“Words are only the outer clothing of ideas.”