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 questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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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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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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It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Time is the best killer.
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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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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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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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If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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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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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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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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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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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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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.
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