Quotes by Agatha Christie


Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan
(née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976)
commonly known as Agatha Christie, English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays.

until they are whole

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

— Agatha Christie

Crime is terribly revealing

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

— Agatha Christie

you have to pay some price

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

— Agatha Christie