Agatha Christie Famous Quotes
"'But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,' she added. 'If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way around.'"
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her."
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
"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."
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody."
"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you."
"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."
"I have enjoyed greatly the second bloomingsuddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you."
"I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that."
Agatha Christie Quotations
"You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society."
Doris Lessing
"One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy."
Frank Shutts
"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so."
Lord Chesterfield
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Today a reader--tomorrow a leader.
W Fusselman
"Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire."
George Gordon Byron
"You have to choose where you look, and in making that choice you eliminate entire worlds."
Barbara Bloom
Do not speak quickly it is a sign of insanity.
Bias
"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete."
Hellen Keller
"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."
Albert Guinon