I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.
Do you not realize, Hastings, that each and everyone of us is a complete mystery with layers. We each try to judge each other, but nine times out of ten, we are wrong.
Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?Of course I believe in the truth, said Rhoda, staring.Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes...
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]
Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care.
Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?'Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
Alas, murmured Poirot to his mustaches, that one can only eat three times a day ...
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.
[Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don't know how that shadow is going to affect...
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.
You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I upset water jugs. I am unlucky.We all do these things when we are young. The poise, the , comes lat...
You know I want you. You know that I’d give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever.
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute i...
What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.
Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.
Unpleasant to feel that people were discussing you
To be part of something one doesn't in the least understand is, I think, one of the most intriguing things about life.
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.