The best Quotes by Agatha Christie

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The best Quotes by Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Very few of us are what we seem.

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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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

Quotes about Agatha Christie

Anna May: "You'll need a Jane Austen."
Madeleine: "A Charlotte Brontë."
Florence: "And a Virginia Woolf."
Madeleine: "Oh, and an Agatha Christie. For reading."

Gunpowder Milkshake

Jane Austen Charlotte Brontë Virginia Woolf

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Scarlet: "You are an increidbly impressive young woman. There's no single person on earth I'd rather kill people with."
Sam: "Thanks, mom."

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Yankee: "Nathan's worried about you. Doesn't want you to do anything stupid. So why don't you hand over the suitcase, and nobody gets hurt."
Sam: "Counter-offer: Go back to Nathan, tell him you tried, but I roughed you up. Oh, you can beat each other up for added realism!"

Gunpowder Milkshake

Sam: "You're bleeding."
Scarlet: "Just another day at the office."

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There is little joy in life for me, and little terror in the grave.
I've lived the parting hour to see of one I would have died to save.

Anna May in Gunpowder Milkshake

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey

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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Jane Austen in Sense and Sensibility

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane Austen

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Dancing Falling in love

Language is wine upon the lips.

Virginia Woolf

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Peeta: "I would love to stop this moment, here and now, and live in it forever."

Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire

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Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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Memories Moments

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

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Beauty Appearance

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Appearance Poems

Don't listen to the advice of people who are living lives you don't want to live.

Andrew Tate

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

Eddie Murphy

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

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Lies Men Taking action Talking

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

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Youth Men Birthday Age

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Children & Childhood Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

Louis C. K. - 2017

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Relationships Marriage

A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.

Fawn Weaver

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Relationships Perfection Marriage

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

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"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

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It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

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I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

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What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

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Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coelho

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Change Beginning

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Children & Childhood Family Parents

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

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The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

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I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

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The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Falling in love

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Love Beauty Valentine's Day

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Beauty Love declerations

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Solitude & Loneliness

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

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Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."

Sebastian Fitzek in Splinter

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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