Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly you 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.

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

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together- and they call it intuition.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

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

"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

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.

I do not think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arise directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

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

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.