Top 33 Quotes by Agatha Christie

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

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.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.