Quotes by Christie, Agatha

"I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do."

Christie, Agatha on ability
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"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her."

Christie, Agatha on age and aging
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"I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me."

Christie, Agatha on age and aging   

"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."

Christie, Agatha on friends and friendship
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"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."

Christie, Agatha on habit
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"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."

Christie, Agatha on regret
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"There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away."

Christie, Agatha on conversation
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"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions."

Christie, Agatha on crime and criminals   

"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. "

Christie, Agatha on age and aging   

"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."

Christie, Agatha on
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