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
Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just being alive is a grand thing.
Fear is incomplete knowledge
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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.
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
Time is the best killer.
To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
One must make one's own mistakes
One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.