Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBEwas an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott including Giant's Bread, but she is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections that she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigative work of such characters as Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Parker Pyne, Ariadne Oliver, Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 September 1890
CityTorquay, England
Agatha Christie quotes about
Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express
One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.
No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot
It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.