Agatha Christie

The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.

Agatha Christie

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

Agatha Christie

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

Agatha Christie

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Agatha Christie

There is nothing so terrible as to live in an atmosphere of suspicion – to see eyes watching you and the love in them changing to fear – nothing so terrible as to suspect those near and dear to you – It is poisonous – a miasma.

Agatha Christie

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you’re writing, and aren’t writing particularly well.

Agatha Christie

There’s nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

Agatha Christie

There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Agatha Christie

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

Agatha Christie

To be part of something one doesn’t in the least understand is, I think, one of the most intriguing things about life.

Agatha Christie