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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan (née Miller, 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot (with the novel debut being The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920), Tommy and Tuppence (with the novel debut being The Secret Adversary in 1922), and Miss Marple (with the novel debut being The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930). She is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time, particularly in the mystery genre.

Quotes from Agatha Christie

Marriage is an extraordinary thing, and I doubt if any outsider — even a child of the marriage — has the right to judge.

—Agatha Christie

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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

—Agatha Christie

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

—Agatha Christie in The Man in the Brown Suit

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

—Agatha Christie in An Autobiography

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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

—Agatha Christie in The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

—Agatha Christie in The Secret Adversary

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People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I’ve known many who have suffered worse and been cut off from life much more…and they’ve managed to lead happy contented lives. It’s what’s in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

—Agatha Christie in A Murder Is Announced

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

—Agatha Christie

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There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.

—Agatha Christie in The Moving Finger

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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 dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

—Agatha Christie

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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

—Agatha Christie in An Autobiography

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If I had kept all these things neatly sorted and filed and labelled, it would save me a lot of trouble. However, it is a pleasure sometimes, when looking vaguely through a pile of old note-books to find something scribbled down, as: Possible plot—do it yourself—girl and not really sister—August— with a kind of sketch of a plot. What it's all about I can't remember now; but it often stimulates me, if not to write that identical plot, at least to write something else.

—Agatha Christie in An Autobiography

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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

—Agatha Christie

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

—Agatha Christie

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

—Agatha Christie

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