One must make one's own mistakes
Murder, you see, is an amateur crime... One feels, very often, as though these nice ordinary chaps, had been overtaken, as it were, by murder, almost accidentally. They've been in a tight place, or th...
It is completely unimportant, said Poirot. That is why it is so interesting, he added softly.
I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike a...
How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.
Fear is incomplete knowledge
Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I heard what you said just now to my friend Hastings. ‘A nice bright girl with no men friends.’ You said...
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
Alas, murmured Poirot to his mustaches, that one can only eat three times a day ...
We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.
The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others but deprived of such nourishment it will reluctantly begin to think for itself- and such thinking remember is original thinking a...
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.
That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering...
You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies.
the elephant can remember.
One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.
Gorilla
Who are you? You don't belong to the police?''I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.