One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
AGATHA CHRISTIEIt’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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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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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
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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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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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Too much mercy often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
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To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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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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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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Very few of us are what we seem.
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Books are a habit-forming drug.
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Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.
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When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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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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With thought, all problems can be resolved.
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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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Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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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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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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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 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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Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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