“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.” – An Autobiography
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” – The ABC Murders
“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.” – The Man in the Brown Suit
“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.” – Murder on the Orient Express
“There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.” – Murder in Mesopotamia
“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.” – An Autobiography
“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” – An Autobiography
Agatha Christie Quotes :
“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.” – Murder on the Orient Express
“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.” – Murder at the Vicarage
“The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.” – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
“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.” – An Autobiography
“Very few of us are what we seem.” – The Man in the Brown Suit
“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.” – Murder in Mesopotamia
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – The Hound of Death
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – An Autobiography
“Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.” – Murder in Mesopotamia
“The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people know the young people are fools!” – Murder at the Vicarage
“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.” – The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“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.” – An Autobiography