Quotes by Agatha Christie

• Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
• Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
• It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
• It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
• If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
• I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
• I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
• Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
• 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 like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
• One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
• I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
• One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
• The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
• The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
• There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
• Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
• These little grey cells. It is up to them.
• Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
• Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
• Very few of us are what we seem.
• Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
• Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
• There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
• An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
• Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
• Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
• I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
• Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
• Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
• But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
• The only worthwhile journey is the one that leads you back to yourself
• Do not seek for happiness in the distance, it is right under your feet.
• I believe that accidents tell us more stories and truths about oneself than achievements ever will.
• The only way to achieve the impossible is to state your aim most forcibly.
• A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk in earnestness