The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.
Six people were thinking of Rosemary Barton who had died nearly a year ago...
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman-probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.
Motives for murder are sometimes very trivial, Madame. What are the most usual motives, Monsieur Poirot? Most frequent—money. That is to say, gain in its various ramifications. Then there is revenge—a...
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
I'm not often bored,' I assured her. Life's not long enough for that.
I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
I believe the present matters --- not the past! The past muust go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms --- a false perspective. - Hilda...
Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way. - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167
He dragged me back - just in time. A tree had crashed down on to the side walk, just missing us. Poirot stared at it, pale and upset. It was a near thing that! But clumsy, all the same - for I had no...
Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.
Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.
إن العشاق يتشاجرون دائماً لأنهم لا يفهمون بعضهم، وعندما يأتي الوقت الذي يفهمون فيه بعضهم فإنهم يفقدون حبهم
Two people rarely see the same thing.
They have a genius, young ladies, for getting into various kinds of trouble and difficulty.
Tea's a thing that need never be finished.