Autres citations d'Agatha Christie:
"Séparer la question principale de celles qui ne le sont pas, voilà la première tâche d'un esprit ordonné."
"On ne reconnaît les moments vraiment importants de sa vie que lorsqu'il est trop tard." / "One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."
"Un bon conseil est toujours ignoré, mais ce n'est pas une raison pour ne pas le donner." / "Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."
"But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price."
"You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love."
"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions."
"Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists."
"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."
"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."
"The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years."
"La guerre ne règle rien: gagner une guerre est aussi désastreux que d'en perdre une. / War settles nothing: to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." (Agatha Christie, 1890-1976) [à comparer à Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): "Qu'elle soit nécessaire, ou même justifiée, ne croyez jamais que la guerre n'est pas un crime." / "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."]
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn."
"Too much mercy often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second."
"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."
"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."
"Too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being."
"Un archéologue est le meilleur mari qu'une femme puisse avoir. Plus elle vieillit, plus il s'intéresse à elle." / "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."
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