Quotes from Agatha Christie

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.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles,one would hardly see anybody,

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

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

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

"This affair must all be unraveled from within." He [Hercule Poirot] tapped his forehead. "These little gray cells. It is 'up to them'—as you say over here."

It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

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.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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 archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

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.

Very few of us are what we seem.

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

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. -The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)

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

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

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

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

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.