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 CHRISTIEIt’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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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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If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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Very few of us are what we seem.
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Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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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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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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