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
Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Time is the best killer.
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
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