He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words.
Having adventures, I replied. Episode III of ‘The Perils of Pamela.’ I told her the whole story. She gave vent to a deep sigh when I finished. Why do these things always happen to you? she demanded p...
Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the to kill-though not the to kill.
Everybody always knows something, said Adam, even if it's something they don't know they know.
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
الناس في الغالب يقتلون من يحبون أكثر من قتلهم من يكرهون ، لأن الذين تحبهم هم وحدهم الذين يستطيعون أن يجعلوا حياتك لا تطاق
You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were it not for constitutional indolence?
Wherever there is human nature, there is drama.
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
What was this passion that attacked women for knitting under the most unpropitious conditions? A woman did not look her best knitting; the absorption, the glassy eyes, the restless, busy fingers! One...
What are you doing, Poirot?I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.
Unpleasant to feel that people were discussing you
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!
They fear me, Hastings; the criminals of your England they fear me! When the cat is there, the little mice, they come no more to the cheese! I don’t suppose the greater part of them even know of your...