Quotes by Agatha Christie

About Agatha Christie:

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie 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 for her contribution to literature.
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It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun’.

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Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off because they were not his own eyebrows, but false ones. As she woke again, her first impression was that which often follows dreams, a belief that the d...

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To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

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Wwhat the hell? Weve all got to die sometime!

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She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.

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Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

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Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

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We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.

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Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use." "And that's fair enough," sighed Craddock. "If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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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.

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Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei.

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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.

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A man in love is an awful sight.

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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

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I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

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The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna - though not one or the other in particular. He was not definitely Jewish, nor definitely G...

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When the sun shines you cannot see the moon," he said. "But when the sun is gone ah,when the sun is gone.

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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

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...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.

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Author Bio

  • NameAgatha Christie
  • DescriptionEnglish mystery and detective writer
  • AliasesAgatha Mary Clarissa Christie
  • BornSeptember 15, 1890
  • DiedJanuary 12, 1976
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Nurse; Writer; Novelist
  • WorksHercule Poirot; Murder In Mesopotamia; Murder In The Mews
  • AwardsDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire