Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A 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.”

— Agatha Christie

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2. “To every problem, there is a most simple solution.”

— Agatha Christie

3. “Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.”

— Agatha Christie

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4. “Time is the best killer.”

— Agatha Christie

5. “The tragedy of life is that people do not change.”

— Agatha Christie

6. “You should employ your little grey cells.”

— Agatha Christie

7. “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

8. “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

10. “Books are a habit-forming drug.”

— Agatha Christie

11. “Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”

— Agatha Christie

12. “Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.”

— Agatha Christie

13. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”

— Agatha Christie

14. “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

15. “If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.”

— Agatha Christie

16. “Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.”

— Agatha Christie

17. “One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”

— Agatha Christie

18. “Fear is incomplete knowledge.”

— Agatha Christie

19. “The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

— Agatha Christie

20. “The first time you do a thing is always exciting.”

— Agatha Christie

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21. “Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.”

— Agatha Christie

22. “I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.”

— Agatha Christie

23. “Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.”

— Agatha Christie

24. “Assumptions are dangerous things.”

— Agatha Christie

25. “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.”

— Agatha Christie

26. “Very few of us are what we seem.”

— Agatha Christie

27. “If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

— Agatha Christie

28. “He laughs best who laughs at the end.”

— Agatha Christie

29. “Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.”

— Agatha Christie

30. “It’s astonishing in this world how things don’t turn out at all the way you expect them to.”

— Agatha Christie

31. “The young people think the old people are fools – but the old people know the young people are fools.”

— Agatha Christie

32. “One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.”

— Agatha Christie

33. “In the midst of life, we are in death.”

— Agatha Christie

34. “I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.”

— Agatha Christie

35. “Desperate ills need desperate remedies.”

— Agatha Christie

36. “Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.”

— Agatha Christie

37. “Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don’t even see that.”

— Agatha Christie

38. “Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.”

— Agatha Christie

39. “There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.”

— Agatha Christie

40. “The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”

— Agatha Christie

41. “Everything is simple, if you arrange the facts methodically.”

— Agatha Christie

42. “Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.”

— Agatha Christie

43. “The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”

— Agatha Christie

44. “The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.”

— Agatha Christie

45. “Never tell all you know – not even to the person you know best.”

— Agatha Christie

46. “Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory – let the theory go.”

— Agatha Christie

47. “Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.”

— Agatha Christie

48. “The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.”

— Agatha Christie

49. “Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.”

— Agatha Christie

50. “You agree – I’m sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.”

— Agatha Christie