156 quotes
I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
The crime is now logical and reasonable.
Murder for Christmas (1939)
"Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing — 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?" His face screwed itself up comically. "You may get more than you bargain for."
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Last time I had my hands on you, you felt like a bird - struggling to escape. You'll never escape now...
Towards Zero (1944)
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory — let the theory go.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Précisément! The body — the cage — is everything of the most respectable — but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
“You do well. Method and order, they are everything,” replied Poirot.
Death on the Nile (1937)
I aroused Judith's contempt by asking what good all this was likely to do to mankind? There is no question that annoys your true scientist more.
Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)
Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend.
Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, they usually admit it — often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
She shrugged her shoulders slightly.
“What can one do?”
“You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.”
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
It would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons.
Dead Man's Folly (1956)
“I am not very clever about Americanisms — and I understand they change very quickly.”
A Murder is Announced (1950)
You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
How averse human beings were ever to admit ignorance!
After the Funeral (1953)
Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and, lo, in a minute they are become discolored carnelians. A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.
Death Comes as the End (1945)
Tout de même, it is not necessary that he should be killed on the Orient Express. There are other places.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
It's not impossible my dear. It's just a very remarkable coincidence — and remarkable coincidences do happen.
Sleeping Murder (1976)
But when investing money, keep, I beg of you, Hastings, strictly to the conservative.
Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)