Quotes from Agatha Christie

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.

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.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

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.

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

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

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

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.