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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

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  Simple, Simple Solutions, Problem

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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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• 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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• 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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• An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

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  Love, Funny, Birthday

  Attributed in Bennett Cerf, The Life of the Party (1956)

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• When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

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  Letting Go, Facts, Theory

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• Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Dog

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Moving Finger (Miss Marple)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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  Imagination, Too Much, Elegance

  Agatha Christie (2009). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

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  Healing, Want, Said

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

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