If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Quote by Agatha Christie

Topics: Principles Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his...

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his...

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...

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...

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...

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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...

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who...

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who...

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but...

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but...

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.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City...

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City...

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.