Agatha Christie

Two people rarely see the same thing.

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

Human nature, dear, is very much the same everywhere. It is more difficult to observe it closely in a city, that is all.

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

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Time is the best killer.

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

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.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without.

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

In the midst of life, we are in death.