These little grey cells. It is up to them.

- Agatha Christie

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

- Agatha Christie

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

- Agatha Christie

Very few of us are what we seem.

- Agatha Christie

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 Christie

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.

- Agatha Christie

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

- Agatha Christie

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

- Agatha Christie

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

- Agatha Christie

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

- Agatha Christie

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

- Agatha Christie

I 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 Christie

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

- Agatha Christie

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

- Agatha Christie

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

- Agatha Christie

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

- Agatha Christie

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

- Agatha Christie

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

- Agatha Christie

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 Christie

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

- Agatha Christie