Never 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 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 CHRISTIEWhen engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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 CHRISTIEIntuition 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.
AGATHA CHRISTIEThe simplest explanation is always the most likely.
AGATHA CHRISTIEDo you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
AGATHA CHRISTIEWords are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
AGATHA CHRISTIEYou don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
AGATHA CHRISTIEOne of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
AGATHA CHRISTIEThe happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
AGATHA CHRISTIEBe sure thy sin will find thee out.
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 CHRISTIEAn appreciative listener is always stimulating.
AGATHA CHRISTIEI like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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 CHRISTIETrains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
AGATHA CHRISTIE