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Agatha Christie Quotes
«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.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
arises, directly, idleness, invention, laziness, possibly, The Mother
«The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.»
«If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
hardly, rigidly, sticks
«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.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Achievement,
Success,
Unhappiness
| Keywords:
achieving, reassure, reassured, reassures, reassuring, successes
«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.»
«It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Mystery,
Nonsense
| Keywords:
unimportant
«'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.'»
«It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
New York
| Keywords:
detective, detective stories, detective story, New York City
«I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
collaborator, collaborators, in writing, like royalty, royalties, without worrying
«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.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
age of, blooming, enjoyed, finish, fresh, greatly, opened, personal relation, Personal relations, relations, rising, sap, sapped, sapping, saps, Second Coming, Second Thoughts, The Second Coming