Agatha Christie — English Writer born on September 15, 1890, died on January 12, 1976
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE was an English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, 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, Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite, and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap. In 1971, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for her contribution to literature... (wikipedia)
Agatha Christie Quotes
1. Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
2. The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
3. 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.
4. Time does not dispose of a question—it only presents it anew in a different guise.
5. Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
6. You agree — I'm sure you agree, that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
7. Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
8. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
9. To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived
10. It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
11. If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
12. One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
13. What life would be with Hori, she did not know. In spite of his gentleness, in spite of his love for her, he would remain in some respects incalculable and incomprehensible. They would share moments of great beauty and richness together - but what of their common daily life?
14. Love can be a very frightening thing. That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
15. Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.
16. Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.
17. Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
18. I think the real work is done in thinking out the development of your story and worrying about it until it comes right. That may take quite a while. Then, when you've got all your material together, all that remains is to find time to write the thing.
19. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her
20. You must write pretty fast, keep in the mood and to keep the talk flowing naturally. I prefer to write a play as a play, that is rather than to adapt a book.
21. I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.