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.
Quote by Agatha Christie about succes, world
Quotes by Agatha Christie
31 quotes by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie, English Writer
Was born on 15 sep 1880. Died on 12 jan 1976, at 95 years old.
Origin country: United Kingdom
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Quote by Agatha Christie about husband, woman
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
Quote by Agatha Christie about woman, love, man
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
Quote by Agatha Christie about pasion, love
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Quote by Agatha Christie about crime, habits, attitude, soul, mind
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Quote by Agatha Christie about habits, things, people
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.
Quote by Agatha Christie about animals, quiet, world
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Quote by Agatha Christie about friendship, old, olderness
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
Quote by Agatha Christie about opinion, eternity
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Quote by Agatha Christie about bad, human imperfections
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Quote by Agatha Christie about advice, reason, good, good luck
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.
Quote by Agatha Christie about life, sadness, things
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.
Quote by Agatha Christie about opinion, sadness, things
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
Quote by Agatha Christie about husband
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
Quote by Agatha Christie about crime, quiet, interest
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.
Quote by Agatha Christie about books, writing, worry, people
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Quote by Agatha Christie about education
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Quote by Agatha Christie about love, thinking, people
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Quote by Agatha Christie about crime, city
