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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with A >> Quotes By Agatha Christie |
| Quote #1: | "'But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,' she added. 'If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way around.'" |
| Quote #2: | "I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." |
| Quote #3: | "An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." |
| Quote #4: | "Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." |
| Quote #5: | "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." |
| Quote #6: | "One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." |
| Quote #7: | "If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody." |
| Quote #8: | "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." |
| Quote #9: | "Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them." |
| Quote #10: | "I have enjoyed greatly the second bloomingsuddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you." |
| Quote #11: | "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." |
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