Agatha Christie

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.