Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

#detective #detective story #itself #new #new york

These little grey cells. It is up to them. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#grey #little #them #these #up

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. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#crimes #fatal #first #further #had

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. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#achieving #most #notice #reassure #something

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

— Agatha Christie

#best #gets #her #husband #interested

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#does #evils #free #free will #god

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#been #child #easily #forgets #go

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

— Agatha Christie

#damn #failures #give #good #good terms

Very few of us are what we seem. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#seem #us #very