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
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutelymiserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quitecertainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just being alive is a grand thing.
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.