Agatha Christie Quotes (65 Quotes)

Very few of us are what we seem.

I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

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.

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself. from Endless Night.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

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

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.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or voluntary.

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

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours I found it quite enthralling.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.