Quotes from Agatha Christie

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

She didn't want to die. She couldn't imagine wanting to die…Death was for—for other people.

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

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

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

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