Best Agatha Christie Quotes

The Top Ten

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

2 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.

3 Very few of us are what we seem.

4 The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

5 It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

6 Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

7 Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

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

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

10 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.

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