Agatha Christie

In everybody’s life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known.

Agatha Christie

In old days the public didn’t really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

Agatha Christie

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

Agatha Christie

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Agatha Christie

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Agatha Christie

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.

Agatha Christie

It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.

Agatha Christie

It’s not a man’s working hours that are important – it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.

Agatha Christie

It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

Agatha Christie

Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.

Agatha Christie