Agatha Christie Quotes

Biography: Agatha Christie is known for her prolific work as a mystery novelist. ... more Biography: Agatha Christie is known for her prolific work as a mystery novelist. She authored 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, with iconic characters like Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Often dubbed the "Queen of Mystery," her works have sold over 2 billion copies worldwide, making her one of the best-selling authors of all time. less

"The best crime novels are about the ordinary things that bring people into extraordinary situations.""They have been talking for so long now that they have forgotten what they are supposed to complain about.""It is a curious thing that at my age one begins to dread the dropping of acquaintances. Like a tree, which it is said must be spared any more cutting at its roots, one feels that one cannot bear to lose any more of one's friends.""Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.""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.""Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.""The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.""All human beings have the same weaknesses.""Nothing is so curious as the mix of an apartment far up among the chimney-pots and the little world that hurries and jostles below.""There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.""Every one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and attitudes.""Everyone is a potential murderer—in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill—though not the will to kill.""It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within—not without.""If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.""Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.""It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.""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.""Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.""The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.""I have learnt that I am a valuable person I have learnt not to be embarrassed about myself but to be proud of myself because I am unique."

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