It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
AGATHA CHRISTIEMany homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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I learned that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn’t it?
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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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To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.
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For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
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If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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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.
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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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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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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.
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The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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