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
It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.
too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.
Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.
Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.
Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.
the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.
Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.
There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.
How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.
marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.