Agatha Christie Quotes

Agatha Christie's collection of the most iconic quotations and thoughts.


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


One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.


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.


Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.


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.


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.


One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.


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.


But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.


There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.


About Agatha Christie:
Was an English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigations of such characters as Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Parker Pyne, Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite, and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. She wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap. In 1971, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for her contribution to literature.