“To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“In my opinion half the people who spend their lives avoiding being run over by buses had much better be run over and put safely out of the way. They're no good.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“It’s odd, isn’t it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“But nothing will suit him now but the best! He's got on wonderfully, and naturally he wants something to show for it, but many's the time I wonder where it will end.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“I often find these self-made men are inconsiderate. Very possibly that is why they amass such large fortunes.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“Bundle frowned. This business of the clocks was curious. She must get hold of Bill Eversleigh. He had been there, she knew. To think was to act with Bundle. She got up and went over to the writing desk. It was an inlaid affair with a lid that rolled back. Bundle sat down at it, pulled a sheet of notepaper towards her and wrote. Dear Bill,—”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“Come and have a cocktail. It's nearly lunch time.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
“I don't like anyone who comes and dies in my house on purpose to annoy me," said Lord Caterham obstinately.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Seven Dials Mystery
Agatha Christie
Born place: in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
Born date September 15, 1890
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“And when you got to the Trestle or the Vacant Lot or the Pond there would already be six hundred kids there. There were always six hundred kids everywhere except where two or more neighbourhoods met – at the Park, for instance – where the numbers would grow into the thousands. I once took part in an ice hockey game at the lagoon in Greenwood Park that involved four thousand kids, all slashing away violently with sticks, and went on for at least three quarters of an hour before anyone realized that we didn’t have a puck.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
“As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon,”
― Roald Dahl, quote from George's Marvellous Medicine
“My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin”
― Bill Watterson, quote from The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
“In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.”
― Osamu Dazai, quote from No Longer Human
“Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.”
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