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.
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Aphorisms by Agatha Christie
In my end is my beginning: that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...
from the book "Endless Night" by Agatha Christie
I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
from the book "" by Agatha Christie
I can imagine anything! That's the trouble with me. I can imagine things now — this minute. I could even make them sound all right, but of course none of them would be true.
from the book "Dead Man's Folly" by Agatha Christie
Men always tell such silly lies.
from the book "After The Funeral" by Agatha Christie
There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...
from the book "After The Funeral" by Agatha Christie
What any woman saw in some particular man was beyond the comprehension of the average intelligent male. It just was so. A woman who could be intelligent about everything else in the world could be a complete fool when it came to some particular man.
from the book "After The Funeral" by Agatha Christie
Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and, lo, in a minute they are become discolored carnelians. A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.
from the book "Death Comes as the End" by Agatha Christie
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
from the book "Death Comes as the End" by Agatha Christie
"It is the kind of thing that happens to you when you are stupid," said Esa. "Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them."
from the book "Death Comes as the End" by Agatha Christie