- Agatha Christie Quotes

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

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

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

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.

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.

Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living.

... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.

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.