"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."
— Agatha Christie

"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."
— Agatha Christie

"Never do anything yourself that others can do for you."
— Agatha Christie

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

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

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

""Poirot" I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.""
— Agatha Christie (Peril at End House)

"The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."
— Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)

"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."
— Agatha Christie

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
— Agatha Christie

"The simplest explanation is always the most likely."
— Agatha Christie

"If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything."
— Agatha Christie

" Ten little Nigger boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Nigger boys sat up very late;
One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little Nigger boys traveling in Devon;
One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little Nigger boys chopping up sticks;
One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.
Six little Nigger boys playing with a hive;
A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five little Nigger boys going in for law;
One got into Chancery and then there were four.
Four little Nigger boys going out to sea;
A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three little Nigger boys walking in the zoo;
A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two Little Nigger boys sitting in the sun;
One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Nigger boy left all alone;
He went out and hanged himself and then there were none. "
— Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None)

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

"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."
— Agatha Christie (Hallowe'en Party)

"It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. "
— Agatha Christie

"Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture.
Miss Lemon: I don't even see that."
— Agatha Christie

"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. "
— Agatha Christie (Murder in Mesopotamia)

"It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are."
— Agatha Christie (The Man in the Brown Suit)

"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble."
— Agatha Christie

"She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read."
— Agatha Christie (Elephants Can Remember)

"Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored."
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

""Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.""
— Agatha Christie (Cat Among the Pigeons)

"I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them."
— Agatha Christie

"At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true."
— Agatha Christie (Murder at the Vicarage)

"The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young peopLe are fools. (Jane Marple; Murder at the Vicarage)"
— Agatha Christie

"If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid."
— Agatha Christie

"The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young peope are fools. - Jane Marple "
— Agatha Christie

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

"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
"
— Agatha Christie

"When ingaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach."
— Agatha Christie

"He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control."
— Agatha Christie

"To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure."
— Agatha Christie

"Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master."
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

"I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. "
— Agatha Christie (Peril at End House)

"I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows."
— Agatha Christie (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd)

"It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap."
— Agatha Christie (Murder at the Vicarage)

"In the midst of life, we are in death.
"
— Agatha Christie

"“There was no unkindness in Miss Marple, she just did not trust people. Though she expected the worst, she often accepted people kindly in spite of what they were.“ "
— Agatha Christie

"The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances."
— Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)

"Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go."
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

"When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!"
— Agatha Christie (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

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

"To every problem, there is a most simple solution."
— Agatha Christie (The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mystery)

"Handsome, strong, gay ... She felt again the thro and lilt of her blood. She had loved Kameni in that moment. She loved him now. Kameni could take the place that Khay had held in her life.
She thought: 'We shall be happy together - yes, we shall be happy. We shall live together and take pleasure in each other and we shall have strong, handsome children. There will be busy days full of work ... and days of pleasure when we sail on the River...Life will be again as I knew it with Khay...What could I ask more than that? What do I want more than that?'
And slowly, very slowly indeed, she turned her face towards Hori. It was as though, silently, she asked him a question.
As though he understood her, he answered:
'When you were a child, I loved you. I loved your grave face and the confidence with which you came to me, asking me to mend your broken toys. And then, after eight years' absence, you came again and sat here, and brought me the thoughts that were in your mind. And your mind, Renisenb, is not like the minds of the rest of your family. It does not turn in upon itself, seeking to encase itself in narrow walls. Your mind is like my mind, it looks over the River, seeing a world of changes, of new ideas - seeing a world where all things are possible to those with courage and vision...'
She broke off, unable to find words to frame her struggling thoughts. What life would be with Hori, she did not know. In spite of his gentleness, in spite of his love for her, he would remain in some respects incalculable and incomprehensible. They would share moments of great beauty and richness together - but what of their common daily life?
(...)
I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes...
With his arms round her, with the sudden new sweetness of his face against hers, she was filled with an exultant richness of living.
(Agatha Christie, Dead comes as the end)"
— Agatha Christie

"If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect."
— Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)

"Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?"
— Agatha Christie (Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery)

""Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.""
— Agatha Christie (The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery)

"Mr. Beresford put down the Daily Mail, which he was reading, and applauded with somewhat unnecessary vigour. He was politely requested by his colleague not to be an ass."
— Agatha Christie

""At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.""
— Agatha Christie