Agatha Christie: Thing

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

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

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

“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.”

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”

“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”

“Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.”

“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”

“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

[Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories. ]”

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

“But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”

“It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.”

“One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.”

“Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther… you've come to the end of things…”

“Two people rarely see the same thing.”

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

“I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today.

~Jessop”

“The world is full of good people who do bad things!”

“Fear, what a strange thing fear was…”