Agatha Christie

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#intuition #experience

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves ↗

— Agatha Christie

#men

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#inspirational #miss-marple #inspirational

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken ↗

— Agatha Christie

#failure #failures #goals #heartbreak #rejection

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#observation #humor

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#humour #hypocrisy #thoughts #hypocrisy

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express ↗

— Agatha Christie

#inspirational

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#art

The past is the father of the present. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#inspirational

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#inspirational