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
If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
One does what one can, not what one cannot.
My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
The past is the father of the present.
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
One must make one's own mistakes
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...
Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.