“Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.
[author's dedication]”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“Youth is a failing only too
easily outgrown.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?'
'What?'
'A sport!'
'And a damned good sport too,' said Tommy.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“I've always jumped on sentiment—and here I am being more sentimental than anybody. What idiots girls are! I've always thought so. I suppose I shall sleep with his photograph under my pillow, and dream about him all night. It's dreadful to feel you've been false to your principles.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“My dear Boris, can you not take a joke?" "Was it a joke?”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“Don't be offended because I think you're young. Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“But one thing is certain, he is the master criminal of this age. He controls a marvellous organization. Most of the Peace propaganda during the war was originated and financed by him.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“¡Qué tontas somos las mujeres! Siempre lo he pensado. Supongo que ahora dormiré con su retrato debajo de la almohada y soñaré toda la noche con él. Es terrible ver que una no es fiel a sus principio.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“No," said Tuppence thoughtfully, "he didn't believe it. That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
“Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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“So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“leave me in peace to converse with my friends? Whom I promise not to kill and dissect.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from The Long Earth
“So che morirò, Peter, ma non capisco. Al posto di un solo cadavere, quello di mia sorella, ce ne sarà un secondo, il mio. Ma chi ha bisogno di un secondo cadavere? Dio certamente no, Lui non sa che farsene dei nostri corpi. La società? Ci guadagnerebbe un libro o dei libri se mi lasciasse vivere, invece di guadagnarci un cadavere in più che non gioverà a nessuno.”
― Ágota Kristóf, quote from The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
“It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.”
― Mary Renault, quote from The Persian Boy
“I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Mistborn
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