The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Quote by Agatha Christie

Topics: People Quotes

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

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

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...

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...

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.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will...

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will...

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...

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...

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that...

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that...

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...

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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...

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people...

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all...

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all...

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...