They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significan...
The rottenness comes from within.
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
Really, my friend! But I will not sit back and say ‘le bon Dieu has arranged everything, I will not interfere.’ Because I am convinced that le bon Dieu created Hercule Poirot for the express purpose o...
People who can be very good can be very bad too.
One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.
Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So g...
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!
It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.
In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerablle to temptation. (Mr. Barnes)
I love autumn. It’s so much richer than spring.
I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been
I don't know why dogs always go for postmen, I'm sure, continued our guide.It's a matter of reasoning, said Poirot. The dog, he argues from reason. He is intelligent; he makes his deductions according...
How little you might know of a person after living in the same house with them!
Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they la...
Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.
Curious thing, rooms. Tell you quite a lot about the people who live in them.