The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. Agatha Christie More Quotes by Agatha Christie More Quotes From Agatha Christie Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion? Agatha Christie felt emotion feelings When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Agatha Christie sheep helping men I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. Agatha Christie dying waiting death The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself. Agatha Christie daggers gold past I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day. Agatha Christie originality letters writing Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know. Agatha Christie adam knows said ... nothing is so boring as devotion. Agatha Christie so-boring boring devotion If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. Agatha Christie alive past thinking Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is. Agatha Christie young love-is thinking There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash. Agatha Christie whiplash hung energy One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers. Agatha Christie things-in-life reflection remember It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves. Agatha Christie failing conversation giving To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication] Agatha Christie monotonous-life dedication adventure ... obsessions are always dangerous. Agatha Christie dangerous obsession The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them. Agatha Christie girl missing men Hate doesn't last. Love does. Agatha Christie lasts hate doe And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week! Agatha Christie bottles taken house ... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round. Agatha Christie mean way interesting I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself. Agatha Christie self memories thinking Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement. Agatha Christie need-encouragement encouragement needs