Agatha Christie
10 quotes
“cried Poirot irritably.”
“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory”
“You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”
“Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it.”
“The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He's got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!”
“The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world”
“I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. LIFE magazine”
“Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder! Spider's Web”
“I have given them life instead of death , freedom instead of the cords of superstition , beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation . The old bad days are over for them, the Light of the Aton has risen, and they can dwell in peace and harmony freed from the shadow of fear and oppression . Akhenaten , as portrayed in Akhnaton (1937); Christie later revised the play slightly in 1972, and it was published in 1973.”