Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
AGATHA CHRISTIEFiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
AGATHA CHRISTIENo innocent person ever has an alibi.
AGATHA CHRISTIETo rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
AGATHA CHRISTIEOne 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.
AGATHA CHRISTIEIt’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
AGATHA CHRISTIEUntil one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
AGATHA CHRISTIENever go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
AGATHA CHRISTIEThe happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
AGATHA CHRISTIEMany homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
AGATHA CHRISTIEAn archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
AGATHA CHRISTIEI 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?
AGATHA CHRISTIEBitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
AGATHA CHRISTIEThe 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.
AGATHA CHRISTIEOne is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
AGATHA CHRISTIEI 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 CHRISTIEWhat they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
AGATHA CHRISTIE