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Agatha Christie Quotes: 19

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.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
An Autobiography
Very few of us are what we seem.
The Man in the Mist
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Murder on the Orient Express
Poirot,"I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
Peril at End House
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
The Clocks
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
The Clocks
In the midst of life, we are in death.
And Then There Were None
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.
An Autobiography
There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.
An Autobiography
What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
The Man in the Brown Suit
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
And Then There Were None
It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
A Murder Is Announced
People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.
A Murder Is Announced
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
Three Act Tragedy
We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.
Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei.