Agatha Christie Quotes

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her contribution to literature. ...more

Birth: September 15, 1890 - Death: January 12, 1976

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.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

Topic(s): Suffering , Hardest , Things In Life

Very few of us are what we seem.

Topic(s): Seems , Literature

Assumptions are dangerous things.

Topic(s): Dangerous , Assumption , Dangerous Things

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

Topic(s): Taste , England , Coffee

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.

Topic(s): Giving , Inspirational , Reason

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

Topic(s): Doe , Safety , Anger

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Topic(s): Imagination , Masters , Servant

Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes – they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Topic(s): World , Suffering , Happiness

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

Topic(s): Ifs , Men , Hard

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

Topic(s): Imagine , Retirement , Tedious

If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Topic(s): Happens , Philosophy , One Day

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Agatha Christie Quotes