Agatha Christie

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.

— Agatha Christie

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

— Agatha Christie

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

— Agatha Christie

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.

— Agatha Christie

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.

— Agatha Christie

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

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.

— Agatha Christie

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.

— Agatha Christie

Most of the rich people I’ve known have been fairly miserable.

— Agatha Christie

I didn’t want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

— Agatha Christie

“Look here,” I said, “people like to collect disasters.”

— Agatha Christie

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one’s finger and say, “It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident.”

— Agatha Christie