I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Quote by Agatha Christie

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves...

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows...

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows...

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows...

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows...

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win...

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win...

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the...

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

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

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they...

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they...

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody

Very few of us are what we seem.

Very few of us are what we seem.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your...

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your...