Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 15, 1890 Death: January 12, 1976
I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not ta….
In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?.
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has..
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head..
To every problem, there is a most simple solution..
Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking..
Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbe….
There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things b….
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely..
Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride..
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person kno….
For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away..
I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never m….
It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does s….
there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic..
Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ….
The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dea….
I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are….
there is evil everywhere under the sun..
That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, th….
how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day..