“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.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“You think he is marrying her for money?'
'Yes, I do. Don't you think so?'
'I should say quite certainly,' said Miss Marple. 'Like young Ellis who married Marion Bates, the rich ironmonger's daughter. She was a very plain girl and absolutely besotted about him. However, it turned out quite well. People like young Ellis and this Gerald Wright are only really disagreeable when they've married a poor girl for love. They are so annoyed with themselves for doing it that they take it out of the girl. But if they marry a rich girl they continue to respect her.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“That gimcrack little desk, probably sham antique Louis XIV. She had said something to him once about there being a secret drawer in it. Secret drawer! That would not fool the police long.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards—when I grew up—that things seemed always to go wrong.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“Women were all the same. They promised to burn things and then didn’t.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“Natural affection is one thing,” said Miss Ramsbottom, “and I hope I’ve got as much of it as anyone. But I won’t stand for wickedness. Wickedness has to be destroyed.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“I should hardly advise you to go too much by all I’ve told you. I’m a malicious creature.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“Yew berries?” “Berries or leaves. Highly poisonous. Taxine, of course, is the alkaloid.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“He doesn’t seem to have been one of those food faddists who’ll eat any mortal thing so long as it isn’t cooked. My sister’s husband’s like that. Raw carrots, raw peas, raw turnips. But”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“The typists might have been so many blackbeetles.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
“It’s a classic, isn’t it, sir?” said Hay. “Third Programme stuff. I don’t listen to the Third Programme.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from A Pocket Full of Rye
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
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“But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.”
― Robert Hughes, quote from The Shock of the New
“You shall be led from hence to the place whence you came…and your body shall be opened, your heart and bowels plucked out, and your privy members cut off and thrown into the fire before your eyes.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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