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's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.
We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.
... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.
Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.
Hate doesn't last. Love does.
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!
... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.
Desperate ills need desperate remedies.
Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.
If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
... nothing is so boring as devotion.
My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)