Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.
AGATHA CHRISTIEI 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.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.
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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
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There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
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Until one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
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The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.
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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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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.
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