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20 Agatha Christie Quotes that Will Help You Solve Some of Life’s Mysteries
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20 Agatha Christie Quotes that Will Help You Solve Some of Life’s Mysteries

An icon in the world of mysteries, thrillers, and crime

novels, Agatha Christie is one of the best-selling authors of all time.


Agatha was destined to become a great writer. She enjoyed

writing and creating characters ever since she was a little girl but who would’ve

thought that only the Bible and Shakespeare would be more widely read than her

novels?

During her life time, Christie wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. Although murder mysteries were her forte, Christie was also noted for her romantic books and plays – including The Mousetrap (the world's longest running theatrical play in London).

But writing didn’t come easily to Christie. As a young

aspiring writer she produced a number of short stories that were all rejected

by various publishers and literary magazines.

In 1920 she finally published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which introduced

the iconic detective Hercule Poirot. Her other well-known character, Miss

Marple, was introduced in The Murder at

the Vicarage.

Nearly all of Agatha Christie’s works have been adapted into movies, TV shows, or plays, and most of them were a success both with critics and at the box office.

Here are 20 Agatha Christie quotes to help solve some of life’s mysteries:

Agatha Christie Quotes

Very few of us are what we seem.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Time is the best killer.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. 

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

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

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

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

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