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Top 43 Agatha Christie Quotes (LADY MALLOWAN)

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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.Pin
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.
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.Pin
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.Pin
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Fear is incomplete knowledge.Pin
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.Pin
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.Pin
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Very few of us are what we seem.Pin
Very few of us are what we seem.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.Pin
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.Pin
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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.Pin
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.

14 Wise Agatha Christie Quotes (WISDOM)

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go.Pin
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory – let the theory go.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.Pin
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.Pin
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.Pin
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.Pin
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.Pin
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.Pin
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.Pin
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Never tell all you know — not even to the person you know best.Pin
Never tell all you know — not even to the person you know best.
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.Pin
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.Pin
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.Pin
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.Pin
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.Pin
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

4 Agatha Christie Quotes on Happiness

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.Pin
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
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.Pin
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.
The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.Pin
The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.Pin
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

9 Agatha Christie Quotes About Life

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.Pin
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.Pin
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
Time is the best killer.Pin
Time is the best killer.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.Pin
If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.Pin
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.Pin
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.Pin
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
In the midst of life, we are in death.Pin
In the midst of life, we are in death.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.Pin
Evil is not something superhuman, it’s something less than human.

6 Agatha Christie Quotes on Books and Writing

Books are a habit-forming drug.Pin
Books are a habit-forming drug.
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.Pin
The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.Pin
Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.Pin
I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
People should be interested in books, not their authors.Pin
People should be interested in books, not their authors.

“Nothing turns out quite in the way that you thought it would when you are sketching out notes for the first chapter, or walking about muttering to yourself and seeing a story unroll.”

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