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
... obsessions are always dangerous.
the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.
you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.
You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.
I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
Assumptions are dangerous things.
I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?