Agatha Christie Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Very few of us are what we seem.

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  Literature, Seems

  Agatha Christie (1995). “Partners in crime”

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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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• 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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• 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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• The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

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  Beautiful, Ugly, Curious

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead

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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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• 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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• 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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• To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

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  War, Winning, Loses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

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  Appreciative, Listeners

  Agatha Christie (2009). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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  Justice, Needs, Too Much

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Hallowe'en party”, Pocket

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

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  Brain, Eating, Should

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

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  Noticing You, Coincidence, Ifs

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• Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

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  Truth, Design, Woven

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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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