Agatha Christie

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.

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

Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

Instinct is a marvellous thing, [...] It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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