It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
AGATHA CHRISTIETime is the best killer.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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I 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.
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Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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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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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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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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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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To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
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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 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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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
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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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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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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
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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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One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
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If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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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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