Agatha Christie: Trending quotes

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“Children and one’s social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for them.”

“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.”

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”

“It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.”

“One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.”

“It was abominable — wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.”

“The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.”

“It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.”

“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”

“Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”

“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”

“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”

“If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, they usually admit it — often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.”

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

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

“Very few of us are what we seem.”

“In the midst of life, we are in death.”