Agatha Christie Quotes

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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.

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Love, Birthday, Family

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Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

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Thinking, May, Imagine

Agatha Christie (1943). “Triple Threat: Exploits of Three Famous Detectives: Hercule Poirot, Harley Quin and Tuppence”

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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.

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Inspirational, Life, Happiness

Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

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Mean, Thinking, Opposites

Agatha Christie (1984). “Partners in Crime”, Berkley

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Books are a habit-forming drug.

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Book, Drug, Habit

Agatha Christie (1952). “A Daughter's a Daughter”

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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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Taken, Facts, Fit

Agatha Christie (2009). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.135, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Very few of us are what we seem.

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Literature, Seems

Agatha Christie (1995). “Partners in crime”

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Fear is incomplete knowledge.

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Incomplete Knowledge, Incomplete

"Death Comes as the End". Book by Agatha Christie, 1945.

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The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

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Thinking, People, Fool

Agatha Christie (1967). “Murder in our midst”

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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

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Accompany Us, Self, World

Agatha Christie, writing as Mary Westmacott (2014). “A Daughter’s a Daughter”, p.15, Harper Collins

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Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

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Alive, Remains, Has Beens

Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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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.

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Nice, Men, Hard Life

Agatha Christie (1931). “The man in the brown suit”

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With thought, all problems can be resolved.

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Problem

Agatha Christie (1956). “Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table”

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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

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Inspirational, Christian, Mother And Daughter

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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

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Faces, Resolution, Unforeseen

Agatha Christie (2000). “The Big Blue House Call”, Pocket Books

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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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Simple, Simple Solutions, Problem

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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.

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Character, Individuality, Everyday

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There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

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Character, Men, Feet

Agatha Christie (1984). “Taken at the flood”, Berkley Pub Group

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

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Love, Cute, Confused

Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.66, HarperCollins UK

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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

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People, Tragedy, Life Is

Agatha Christie (1984). “Taken at the flood”, Berkley Pub Group

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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

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Trust, Money, Memorable

Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

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May, Weapons, Remember

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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

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Literature, Eternity

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Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

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Order, Life Is Like, Doe

Agatha Christie (1984). “Sad cypress”

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The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

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Things In Life, Suffering, Someone You Love

Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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Born: September 15, 1890
Died: January 12, 1976
Occupation: Novelist
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