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Agatha Christie Quotes
English mystery author
| “ | One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Autobiography (1977) | ” |
| “ | I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
An Autobiography, 1977 | ” |
| “ | 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.
An Autobiography, 1977 | ” |
| “ | 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.
An Autobiography, 1977 | ” |
| “ | The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. | ” |
| “ | If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. | ” |
| “ | I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.
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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. | ” |
| “ | 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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| “ | Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
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| “ | A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. | ” |
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