"Any coincidence is always worth noticing. You can always throw it away later if it is only a coincidence"
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
“Very few of us are what we seem.”
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
“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.”
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
“The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.”
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
“Time is the best killer.”
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
“I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
“It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
"Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong."
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
"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."
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
"Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go."
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
"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."
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
"The tragedy of life is that people do not change."
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
"It's not a man's working hours that are important— it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make."
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
"What good is money if it can't buy happiness?"
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
"When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
Agatha Christie"
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
"To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one."
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
"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."
— Agatha Christie (1890-1976)