{"author":"Agatha Christie","author_id":"Agatha+Christie","total_quotes":306,"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["beginnings-and-endings","thinking"],"id":1035,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, evEryThing is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scare here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking TO do- clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["analogy","archeology","detective","mystery","truth"],"id":1728,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["men","women"],"id":2076,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["children"],"id":3618,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["time","book","plan "],"id":7546,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["women"],"id":8365,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["disclosure","life","personality","recluse","revelation","self"],"id":9488,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based always, always on the relations of the sexes. If a man poisons his wife in order to travel to the North Pole or to enjoy the peace of a bachelor existence—it would not interest his fellow-villagers for a minute!","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["gossip"],"id":11319,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["murder"],"id":13462,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["logic","scientific-method"],"id":14049,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":306,"pages":31,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}