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
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.