Agatha Christie's quotes

Here are few quotes by Dame Agatha Christie:

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

"Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her."

"But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. "
"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions."

"An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not."

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

"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."

"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 like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."

"I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties."

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

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

"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story."

"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."

"Never do anything yourself that others can do for you."

"Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!"

"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."

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

"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."

"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

"There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away."

"Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. "

"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."