Quotes by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

British writer

Lived from: 1890 - 1976

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 15 september 1890 Died: 12 january 1976

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  • I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
    A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
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  • I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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  • 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.
    An Autobiography (1977)
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  • I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog.
    Peril at End House (1932)
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  • I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
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  • I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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  • I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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  • 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.
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  • If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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  • It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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  • It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
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  • Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
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  • Now there is no murder without a motive.
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
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  • One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.
    Death in the Clouds (1935) ch. 25
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  • One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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  • The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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  • The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
    Murder for Christmas (1939)
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  • The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
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  • The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
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  • The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
    Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
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