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“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”
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“Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]”
― Sad Cypress
― Sad Cypress
“I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster”
― The Code of the Woosters
― The Code of the Woosters
“Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.”
― Five Little Pigs
― Five Little Pigs
“Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains---if you've got any. And, if necessary--act.”
― Death on the Nile
― Death on the Nile
“She might have trusted you. But Mademoiselle Katherine has spent a great deal of her life listening, and those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one”
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“You belong to the League of Nations?’
‘I belong to the world, Madame,’ said Poirot dramatically.”
― Murder on the Orient Express
‘I belong to the world, Madame,’ said Poirot dramatically.”
― Murder on the Orient Express
“Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.”
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“M. Van Aldin is an obstinate man," said Poirot drily. "I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. . . . We've only one life to live.”
― Five Little Pigs
― Five Little Pigs
“Do you know what you sound like?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'A computer. You know. You're programming yourself. That's what they call it, isn't it? I mean you're feeding all these things into yourself all day and then you're going to see what comes out.”
― Hallowe'en Party
― Hallowe'en Party
“Yes, with your talk of crime this morning. You said this man, Hercule Poirot, was a kind of stormy petrel, that where he went crimes followed. No sooner does he arrive than we have a suspiciously sudden death. Of course my thoughts fly to murder at once.”
― Three Act Tragedy
― Three Act Tragedy
“It is annoying,' she continued vexedly, 'that one cannot see through a keyhole and hear through it at the same time.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“He had said, half-laughingly, that this woman might bring him bad luck.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“A lady — a lady in every sense of the word. Not very young, not singularly beautiful. But with something — grey eyes that might perhaps see too much. He knew as he went out of the door that in some way he was afraid of this woman. He had a sense of fatality.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“I knew I was going to meet you soon,' he remarked, 'but I never dreamt that it would be here. It had to be, you know. Once at the Savoy and once at Cook's — never twice without three times. Don't say you can't remember me or never noticed me. I insist upon your pretending that you noticed me, anyway.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“She is a remarkably nice girl,' said Van Aldin thoughtfully, 'very nice. Did you happen to notice her eyes?'
'Any man,' said Knighton, 'would be bound to notice her eyes.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
'Any man,' said Knighton, 'would be bound to notice her eyes.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“He stared at her. Then, like a man in a dream, he turned very slowly and went out of the room, swaying slightly as he walked.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“I cannot look into your heart, Mademoiselle; I do not think you would let me if I could. I will just say this. There are men who have a strange fascination for women.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“You could, perhaps, love a thief, Mademoiselle, but not a murderer.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“[...] Now I am going to tell you something more. From the very first moment I saw you I knew you were the only woman in the world for me. I was — afraid of you. I thought you might bring me bad luck.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“She was shaken — touched. His manner was so gentle and appealing.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
“[...] But Mademoiselle Katherine has spent a great deal of her life listening, and those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one.”
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
― The Mystery of the Blue Train
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