Agatha Christie Quotes, People Quotes, Quiet Quotes

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , People Quotes , Quiet Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Women Quotes , Knowing Quotes

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , People Quotes , Likes Quotes

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Suicide Quotes , Strong Quotes

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Mean Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Mean Quotes , Scotch Quotes

He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Men Quotes

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Children Quotes , Judging Quotes

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Children Quotes , Past Quotes

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Things In Life Quotes , Suffering Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Suffering Quotes

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Writing Quotes , Letters Quotes

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Dear Ones Quotes , Doubt Quotes

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Eggs Quotes

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , One Day Quotes

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Secret Quotes , Wish Quotes

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Brain Quotes , Eating Quotes

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Liars Quotes , Men Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Crime Novels Quotes , Unhappy Quotes