Quote

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

Agatha Christie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
Autobiographer
Dramaturge
Novelist
Nurse
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
Fine
Realizing
Seventy
Age
Seventies
Fighting
Fighter
Show
Material
Shows
Materials
Live
Lived
Realize

More quotes by Agatha Christie

Image
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Agatha Christie
Image
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
Agatha Christie
Image
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.
Agatha Christie
Image
To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
Agatha Christie
Image
That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.
Agatha Christie
Image
... obsessions are always dangerous.
Agatha Christie
Image
Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.
Agatha Christie
Image
You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
Agatha Christie
Image
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie
Image
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
Agatha Christie
Image
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.
Agatha Christie
Image
It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.
Agatha Christie
Image
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
Agatha Christie
Image
Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
Agatha Christie
Image
Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.
Agatha Christie
Image
The first time you do a thing is always exciting.
Agatha Christie
Image
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.
Agatha Christie
Image
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.
Agatha Christie
Image
Assumptions are dangerous things.
Agatha Christie
Image
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
Agatha Christie