If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
Agatha ChristieNever do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Agatha ChristieI 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 ChristieTags: inspirational
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
Agatha ChristieOne is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha ChristieIf I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
Agatha ChristieA 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 Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha ChristieTags: writing
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture.
Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
[Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]
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