““That’s all very well — they’re not educated, poor creatures.”“No, and a good thing too. Education has devitalised the white races. Look at America — goes in for an orgy of culture. Simply disgusting.””Agatha Christie book Death on the NileDeath on the Nile (1937)
“Looking back, it seems to me extraordinary that we should have contemplated having both a nurse and a servant, but they were considered essentials of life in those days, and were the last things we would have thought of dispensing with. To have committed the extravagance of a car, for instance, would never have entered our minds. Only the rich had cars.”Agatha Christie Part V: War, §IV An Autobiography (1977)