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
I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!
It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you ...
More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.
there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.
The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.
The truth often does sound unconvincing.
The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.
Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?
how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.