Agatha Christie's Wit & Wisdom: Devotion

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This site contains over 300 quotes covering 100 subjects that Agatha Christie commented on in her books. Click on any one of the subjects in the List of Subjects (below left) to read what Christie wrote about that topic. Full bibliographic information is included: book title, chapter or story, publication date, and the source character (or Christie as the omniscient narrator).

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Devotion

Subject: Devotion

Quote: “[N]othing is so boring as devotion.”

Character: Simeon Lee

Chapter/Story: II

Book Title/Copyright: A Holiday for Murder (Murder for Christmas), 1938

Subject: Worship

Quote: She’d got it all right; the humility, the strength in the neck muscles, the bowed shoulders, the slightly upraised face—a featureless face, since worship drives out personality.

Character: Omniscient narrator

Chapter/Story: 2

Book Title/Copyright: Murder After Hours (The Hollow), 1946

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Devotion