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Quotes by Agatha Christie


The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
– Agatha Christie
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
– Agatha Christie
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
– Agatha Christie
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
– Agatha Christie
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
– Agatha Christie
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
– Agatha Christie
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
– Agatha Christie
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
– Agatha Christie
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
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
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
– Agatha Christie
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
– Agatha Christie
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
– Agatha Christie
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
– Agatha Christie
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
– Agatha Christie
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
– Agatha Christie
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
– Agatha Christie
Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
– Agatha Christie
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
– Agatha Christie
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
– Agatha Christie
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
– Agatha Christie
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
– Agatha Christie
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
– Agatha Christie
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
– Agatha Christie
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.
– Agatha Christie
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
– Agatha Christie
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
– Agatha Christie
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
– Agatha Christie
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
– Agatha Christie