Agatha Christie Quotes
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!
Christie, Agatha. The Body in the Library. Collins Crime Club, 1942.
She asked the same question that American officials in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Vietnam, and Korea have asked a for the next 100 years and longer. The officials of a true democracy can never be sure that the promises and commitments that they make in the name of their government will be honored in the future. The body politic can and often does have a substantial change of heart or mind.
This proverb which is taken seriously by most Chinese makes corruption harder to control.
In the internecine warfare in the Iraq War many of the Iraqis who worked with and for the United States during the war, were threatened and many killed. Unlike the Ford Administration in the Vietnam War, which had resettled almost 200,000 Asians who had worked with America and were in danger of retaliation, the George W. Bush Administration would not allow the people who were loyal to United States forces in the war to immigrate to the U. S.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which was performed in the West End from 1952 to 2020, as well as six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
