Agatha Christie Quotes

“An 1895 book on child development argued that if a girl overused her brain, it would damage her reproductive powers.”
― Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman

“one’s thankfulness for the gift of life is, I think, stronger and more vital during those years than it ever has been before.”
― Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman

“But what Agatha really liked about archaeology was the glimpse it offered into a different daily life: here, picked up by me, this broken fragment of a clay pot, hand-made, with a design of dots and cross-hatching in black paint, is the forerunner of the Woolworth cup out of which this very morning I have drunk my tea.9 These two quotations show two distinct”
― Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

“Evil people are those who will not or cannot grow up,' Agatha wrote. 'A man who is a child,' says one of her characters, 'is the most frightening thing in the world.”
― Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

“And that childless singletons – both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are unmarried – don’t need a conventional family round them to thrive.3”
― Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman