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
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.
People who can be very good can be very bad too.
I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
People should be interested in books, not their authors.
It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.
you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?
Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.