Agatha Christie

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don’t realise it.

Agatha Christie

He laughs best who laughs at the end.

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

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

Agatha Christie

I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

Agatha Christie

I’ve a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

Agatha Christie

Ideas are like everything else. They’ve got to be marketed.

Agatha Christie

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

Agatha Christie

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

Agatha Christie

It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been very much present in your mind during that period.

Agatha Christie