Quotes by Agatha Christie

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

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

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

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.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.