Agatha Christie Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• No innocent person ever has an alibi.

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  Innocent Person, Innocent, Persons

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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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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• 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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• ... nothing is so boring as devotion.

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  Boring, Devotion, So Boring

  Agatha Christie (1972). “Hercule Poirot's Christmas”

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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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• Assumptions are dangerous things.

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  Assumption, Dangerous, Dangerous Things

  "The Wide Window". Book by Daniel Handler, 2000.

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• 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?

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  Essence, Trying, Way

  Agatha Christie (1982). “At Bertram's Hotel”, Pocket

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Life, Retirement, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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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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• 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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• 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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• The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

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  Faces, Mask, Humans

  Agatha Christie (1962). “Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress”

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

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  Philosophy, One Day, Complaining

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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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• 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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• What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

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  Wealth, Ifs

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• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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  Time, Book, Memorable

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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