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
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.
The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
Books are a habit-forming drug.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Very few of us are what we seem.
Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.
You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.