Author: Agatha Christie

Cites

• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Taken at the Flood (None) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures
    FROM: Julius Caesar, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: Endless Night (1967) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Every Night and every Morn / Some to Misery are born...
    FROM: Auguries of Innocence, (1863), Poem, UK
• Jan Smuts (1)
  • IN: Passenger to Frankfurt (1970) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Leadership, besides being a great creative force, can be diabolical..."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, South Africa
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Hickory Dickory Dock (1955) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Hickory dickory dock The mouse ran up the clock The clock struck one The mouse ran down Hickory dickory dock."
    FROM: Traditional, (1744), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Sparkling Cyanide (1945) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "What can I do to drive away remembrances from mine eyes?"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Ordeal by Innocence (1958) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me. I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that Thou wilt not hold me innocent.
    FROM: Job, (-165), Bible, NULL

Cited by

• Felix Cheong (1)
  • IN: Singapore Siu Dai 2: The SG Conversation Upsize! (2014) Novel, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: It is a curious thought, / but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous / that you realise just how much you love them.
    FROM: An Autobiography, (1977), Book, UK
• Elana K. Arnold (2)
  • IN: Splendor (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
    FROM: An Autobiography, (1977), Book, UK
• Max Collins (2)
  • IN: Cold Burn (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: With method and logic one can accomplish anything.
    FROM: Hercule Poirot, (1924), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The London Blitz Murders (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The truth is that one never believes for a minute-no matter what danger you’re in-that you yourself are going to be killed. The bomb is always going to hit the other person.
    FROM: Taken at the Flood, (1948), Novel, UK