Quote

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

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
Outgrown
Easily
Failing
Youth

More quotes by Agatha Christie

Image
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
Agatha Christie
Image
Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.
Agatha Christie
Image
I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.
Agatha Christie
Image
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
Agatha Christie
Image
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
Agatha Christie
Image
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
Agatha Christie
Image
You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
Agatha Christie
Image
It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without. ~ Poirot
Agatha Christie
Image
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
Agatha Christie
Image
Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!
Agatha Christie
Image
If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
Agatha Christie
Image
There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot
Agatha Christie
Image
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
Agatha Christie
Image
Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.
Agatha Christie
Image
To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
Agatha Christie
Image
Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.
Agatha Christie
Image
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.
Agatha Christie
Image
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
Agatha Christie
Image
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
Agatha Christie
Image
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
Agatha Christie