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.
AGATHA CHRISTIEMany homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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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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Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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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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Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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Time is the best killer.
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When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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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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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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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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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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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
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If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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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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An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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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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It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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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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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 tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
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One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
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