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 often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.
If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.