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 CHRISTIEThere are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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Time is the best killer.
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Don’t think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.
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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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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
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If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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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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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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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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Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
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It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
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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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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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