10 quotes to celebrate the queen of crime and poison

Dame Agatha Christie, author of over 80 novels and short stories was born on 15 September 1890 and she died 12 January 1976.

Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. According to Wikipedia, aside from her detective stories, she has written six romances under the name Mary Westmacott including Giant's Bread, but she is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections that she wrote under her own name.

She is known as the writer of the world’s longest running stage play, mastermind behind countless murders, creator of world-famous detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

To celebrate this incredible legacy, here are 10 fantastic quotes from her:

1. “A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."

2. “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”

3. “What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”

4. “But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale. What you need to understand is, there are things that cannot be bought.”

5. “If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

6. “It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”

7. “Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.”

8. “I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”

9. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn."

10. "Very few of us are what we seem."

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