The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
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...
It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.
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...
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...
Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple
A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.
You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.
Fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.
You do not comprehend. It is not the victim who concerns me so much. It is the effect on the character of the slayer.What about war?In war you do not exercise the right of private judgement. That is w...
There's no doubt about what the man's profession has been. He's a retired hairdresser. Look at that moustache of his.
There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet.
The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.
The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.
Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.
Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.
I demand of you a thousand pardons, monsieur. I am without defence. For some months now I cultivate the marrows. This morning suddenly I enrage myself with these marrows. I send them to promenade them...
He played the part of the devil too successfully. But he was not the devil. Au fond, he was a stupid man. And so - he died.Because he was stupid?It is the sin that is never forgiven and always punishe...
Caroline is the lady who cooks for me. Incidentally she is the wife of my gardener. What kind of a wife she makes I do not know, but she is an excellent cook. James, on the other hand, is not a good g...