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“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.”

Agatha Christie

Foreword
An Autobiography (1977)

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

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

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

Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

“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.”

Agatha Christie book The Hound of Death

Source: The Hound of Death

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

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“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.”

Agatha Christie book The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Source: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“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.”

Agatha Christie

Source: An Autobiography

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

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

Agatha Christie book The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

Source: The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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

Agatha Christie book Partners in Crime

Source: Partners in Crime

“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.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express

Source: Murder on the Orient Express

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

Agatha Christie And Then There Were None

Source: And Then There Were None

“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.”

Agatha Christie

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

Agatha Christie And Then There Were None

Source: And Then There Were None

“Two people rarely see the same thing.”

Agatha Christie book Murder on the links

Source: The Murder on the Links

“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.”

Agatha Christie book Endless Night

Source: Endless Night

“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”

Agatha Christie book Destination Unknown

Source: Destination Unknown

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

Agatha Christie

“Fear, what a strange thing fear was…”

Agatha Christie And Then There Were None

Source: And Then There Were None