Agatha Christie Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Agatha Christie:

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. Freya Stark

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Joseph Addison

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

P. G. Wodehouse

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

Robert Burton

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

H. C. Bailey

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

Daniel Tammet

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

Henry Chadwick

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

John Foxe

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

Margaret Cavendish

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Joseph Addison

People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you.

Mark Barrowcliffe

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.

Andrew Morton

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Bernie Taupin

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Charles Caleb Colton

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

D. H. Lawrence

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Mary Astell

I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it.

Ricky Gervais

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

John le Carre

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

D. H. Lawrence

The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.

Richard Jefferies

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Vera Brittain

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

Julian Barnes

There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.

Richard Jefferies

Quite a lot is required of writers these days in terms of, if not promoting the work, then being a representative of the work. It's a difficult thing, really.

Sarah Hall

There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

Kate Greenaway

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Douglas Adams

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

Nigel Kneale

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

A. N. Wilson

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

Henry Reed

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Samuel Pepys

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Rudyard Kipling

Interestingly, when it comes to fashion, I like the styling part more than I like the actual fashion.

Selah Louise Marley