There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha Christie
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
AGATHA CHRISTIE It was like an Agatha Christie thriller, trying to work out who this man was.
BARRY CRYER Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called ...
SAMANTHA BOND I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas presen...
KIMBERLEY NIXON Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it ha...
AGATHA CHRISTIE There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of he...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).
CONNIE WILLIS Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
NANCY BANKS SMITH Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha C...
DYLAN THOMAS He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well ...
THOMAS KEMPIS The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to de...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthu...
HA-JOON CHANG Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually...
SOPHIE HANNAH He rose, placed another small log on the fire, sat back down in his armchair, and opened his book. DAVID BALDACCI Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
AGATHA CHRISTIE I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorot...
KAZUO ISHIGURO Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his o...
JOHN CALVIN The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the pe...
MAIMONIDES Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!
AGATHA CHRISTIE Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own m...
JOHN CALVIN No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
MATTHEW HENRY No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness
MATTHEW HENRY War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much know...
PATRICK NESS The problem with free will doctrine is that it empowers man to God status..
NORM TOMLINSON Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking
ALBERT EINSTEIN Over the years, the Beatles themselves have incorporated so much fantasy into their own stories that...
BOB SPITZ The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
LEON BLUM And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life...
ANNE HOLM ...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds...
ARTHUR KOESTLER And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-"
"Ah, no, my friend-"
"From your point of vie...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He is a man of integrity. I have taken him at his word that he does not have an ideological agenda a...
PATRICK LEAHY Agatha Christie n. A silent, putrid fart committed by someone in this very room...
VIZ Why didn't they ask the Evans?
AGATHA CHRISTIE Put that in your mustache and smoke it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will.
ESAN MAGAZINE Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all...
SOPHIE HANNAH All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to Go...
SOURCE UNKNOWN We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
SWAMI RAMDAS God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people fr...
ADAM HAMILTON Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who re...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read...
ALBERT EINSTEIN if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you!
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes....
MAUREEN JOHNSON Every man makes a god of his own desire.
DAVID TUVILL I take him at his word that he does not have an ideological agenda and that he will be his own man a...
PATRICK LEAHY Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is ...
JOHN TYLER The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for th...
THOMAS HOBBES A wise man does his own work.
TURKISH PROVERB Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, s...
SOPHIE HANNAH If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There i...
MAHATMA GANDHI Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of...
PREM PRAKASH Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
GROUCHO MARX Basically, it's a play being written right before your eyes -- sort of. The premise is that a retiri...
JANE MODLIN I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reade...
A. S. BYATT The time for a person to instantly interact with his own soul, inspect his own mind and introspect w...
ANUJ SOMANY Man made God in his own image...
ECKHART TOLLE Man does what he can, God does what he will.
PROVERB An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
WILLEM DE KOONING The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evi...
GEORGE MACDONALD A True Wise Man Surrenders Every Thing Freely To God While Alive.
A Foolish Man Surrenders Ever...
BABA TUNDE OJO-OLUBIYO Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tenden...
DEREK BOK God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
FRANK WEDEKIND The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his...
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AGATHA CHRISTIE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL God does not need man nor his won works.
JOHN MILTON The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble ...
C.S. LEWIS What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
DECIMUS LABERIUS Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally c...
ELIZABETH GILBERT God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all t...
JOHN TAULER Nowhere does he (Christie) say Norcross is innocent.
JON'A MEYER A god who created man "after his own image", and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited t...
JOHANN MOST It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 It is clear that he does not pray, wh...
THOMAS AQUINAS His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despise...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his
physician his heir.
UNKNOWN The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convict...
MARIA MONTESSORI God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them...
R.M. ARCEJAEGER People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at...
ROBERT MUGABE A man that starts his journey with God and does not finish his journey with God isn't successful in ...
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AGATHA CHRISTIE I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I can...
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AGATHA CHRISTIE But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Very few of us are what we seem.
AGATHA CHRISTIE If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
AGATHA CHRISTIE These little grey cells. It is up to them.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
AGATHA CHRISTIE It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective stor...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't giv...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves abo...
AGATHA CHRISTIE There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet i...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just...
AGATHA CHRISTIE One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend an...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
AGATHA CHRISTIE There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
AGATHA CHRISTIE I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly fr...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
AGATHA CHRISTIE The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
AGATHA CHRISTIE It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. . . . We've only one life to live.
AGATHA CHRISTIE To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out...
AGATHA CHRISTIE If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,
AGATHA CHRISTIE Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not p...
AGATHA CHRISTIE One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
AGATHA CHRISTIE I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever tru...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea...
AGATHA CHRISTIE It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!
AGATHA CHRISTIE I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly fro...
AGATHA CHRISTIE One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastro...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE I like life. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a who...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
AGATHA CHRISTIE A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
AGATHA CHRISTIE That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bo...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, bu...
AGATHA CHRISTIE At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was...
AGATHA CHRISTIE You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"
It ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.
AGATHA CHRISTIE They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they fee...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.
AGATHA CHRISTIE If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer su...
AGATHA CHRISTIE It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!
AGATHA CHRISTIE My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.
AGATHA CHRISTIE The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.
AGATHA CHRISTIE For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Well, people are like that too. THey create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weak...
AGATHA CHRISTIE It can happen that if anyone is talking to a person they know cannot see well, they are careless. Th...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I know enough of life to know that you can never judge any case on its outside merits.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it ha...
AGATHA CHRISTIE As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?'
Poirot stared straight a...
AGATHA CHRISTIE My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
AGATHA CHRISTIE Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.
AGATHA CHRISTIE It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Please don't be too prejudiced against the poor thing because she's a liar. I do really believe that...
AGATHA CHRISTIE When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels
AGATHA CHRISTIE What would Christie do?
AGATHA CHRISTIE A Murder is Announced
AGATHA CHRISTIE We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforc...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
AGATHA CHRISTIE The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend
AGATHA CHRISTIE Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
AGATHA CHRISTIE I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from i...
AGATHA CHRISTIE But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,' she added. 'If you don't see what a thing means,...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fool...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Use your little grey cells mon ami"
(Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles')
- AGATHA CHRISTIE Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatn...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.
AGATHA CHRISTIE There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at st...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Ye Gods and Little Fishes," said Sir Henry, "can it be? George, it's my own particular, one and only...
AGATHA CHRISTIE It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again....
AGATHA CHRISTIE It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Why didn't they ask the Evans?
AGATHA CHRISTIE It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity
AGATHA CHRISTIE Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know q...
AGATHA CHRISTIE But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price
AGATHA CHRISTIE I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the sam...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
AGATHA CHRISTIE I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutelymiserable, racked with sorrow, but...
AGATHA CHRISTIE But I don't doubt it will be essentially the same type of crime. The details may be different, but t...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.
AGATHA CHRISTIE بينما تمضي الحياة ، ويصبح من المرهق الحفاظ على الشخصية ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Lies--and again lies--it amazes me, the amount of lies we had told to us this morning."
"There ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.
AGATHA CHRISTIE It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run w...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!
AGATHA CHRISTIE If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?"
"That is so."
AGATHA CHRISTIE One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Enemies! People these days don't have enemies! Not English people!
AGATHA CHRISTIE I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!
AGATHA CHRISTIE She's not sensual. She doesn't want affairs. It's just cold-blooded experiment on her part and the f...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Com maior percepção do caráter inglês, servi uma forte dose de uísque com soda e coloquei-a na ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
AGATHA CHRISTIE You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The sim...
AGATHA CHRISTIE W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why.
AGATHA CHRISTIE You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a r...
AGATHA CHRISTIE No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and deares...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go...
AGATHA CHRISTIE One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.
AGATHA CHRISTIE What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
AGATHA CHRISTIE A sound of laughter was heard-they turned sharply. Vera Claythorne was standing in the yard. She cri...
AGATHA CHRISTIE All the same, lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily p...
AGATHA CHRISTIE That’s right,” said Mrs. Oliver in an exasperated voice, “blame it all on me as usual!
AGATHA CHRISTIE wanted to know.” “It’s better not to know. It’s better never to know. Better to leave things...
AGATHA CHRISTIE From what you read and hear nowadays, it seems that murder under certain aspects is slowly but surel...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The past is the father of the present,” said Poirot sententiously. He
AGATHA CHRISTIE was suspicious, had always been suspicious, of mercy—too much mercy, that is to say. Too much merc...
AGATHA CHRISTIE It was not unknown in the present age for children to commit crimes, quite young children. Children ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE There is always a brave new world,” said Poirot, “but only, you know, for very special people. T...
AGATHA CHRISTIE But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that h...
AGATHA CHRISTIE May your moustaches never grow less.
AGATHA CHRISTIE ...A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?"
"You don't believe in i...
AGATHA CHRISTIE You want beauty,” said Hercule Poirot. “Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Put that in your mustache and smoke it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE The past is the father of the present.
AGATHA CHRISTIE You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I...
AGATHA CHRISTIE A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
AGATHA CHRISTIE Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
AGATHA CHRISTIE A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and a...
AGATHA CHRISTIE You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
AGATHA CHRISTIE An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
AGATHA CHRISTIE There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She w...
AGATHA CHRISTIE One does feel proud to belong to the human race when one sees the wonderful things human beings have...
AGATHA CHRISTIE they are only full of pity for the young killer, because of his youth. Why should they not execute h...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Little by little the head emerged, preserved by the sludge for about 2,500 years. There it was–the...
AGATHA CHRISTIE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE On ülisuur viga lasta inimesel näha või kuulda valel ajal. Enamiku inimeste jaoks kaotab Shakespe...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I can suspend judgment on those who kill–but I think they are evil for the community; they bring i...
AGATHA CHRISTIE One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. you would not see it with the same ey...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Oh, the glorious relief, the wonderful relief when somebody knows what's in your mind and tells it t...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I was, like everyone else who wrote books or read them, against the criminal and for the innocent vi...
AGATHA CHRISTIE have a war memorial of my own at Greenway. In the library, which was their mess-room, an artist has ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE the horror of sitting at a tea table, looking across at my best loved friend, and suddenly realising...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Oh, you still don’t understand,’ he said impatiently. ‘I’ve fallen in love with her, and I�...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE