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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
- Agatha Christie
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
- Agatha Christie
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
- Agatha Christie
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
- Agatha Christie
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
- 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
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
- Agatha Christie
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
- Agatha Christie
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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
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
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 I was born once again, I would like to be a woman - always!
- Agatha Christie
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
- Agatha Christie
It is never good to entirely quit with work.
- Agatha Christie
A child says 'Thank God for my good dinner.' What can I say at seventy-five? 'Thank God for my good life, and for
all the love that has been given to me.
- Agatha Christie
The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from
suffering.
- Agatha Christie
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy chilhood. I had a very happy childhood.
- Agatha Christie
One doesn't recognize in one's life the really important moments - not until it's too late.
- Agatha Christie
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
- Agatha Christie
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
- 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
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would
like to do.
- Agatha Christie
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