The Secret Of Chimneys Quotes

#1. The Agatha Christie Collection Christie Crime Classics The Man in the Brown Suit The Secret of Chimneys The Seven Dials Mystery The Mysterious Mr Quin The Sittaford

Agatha Christie

#2. All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

Graham Swift

#3. It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#4. I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

Katherine Jenkins

#5. Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

Agatha Christie

#6. Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.

Agatha Christie

#7. Sentimentality, Mrs Revel. You know it is. Love isn't a drug that you take to blind you to your surroundings - you can make it that, yes, but it's a pity - love can be a lot more than that.

Agatha Christie

#8. Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male.

Sarah MacLean

#9. Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

Martin Luther

#10. I've got a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. A beastly thing, compromise, but it steals upon you as you near middle age.

Agatha Christie

#11. But I've always found that those who talk most about blood have never actually seen it run.

Agatha Christie