156 quotes
I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
“Yes, Mr. Lee.” Superintendent Sugden did not wast time on explanations. “What’s all this?”
Murder for Christmas (1939)
"It is the kind of thing that happens to you when you are stupid," said Esa. "Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them."
Death Comes as the End (1945)
It was abominable — wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
Yes, he is intelligent. But we must be more intelligent. We must be so intelligent that he does not suspect us of being intelligent at all.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
“It’s so dreadfully easy — killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn’t matter… That it’s only you that matters! It’s dangerous — that.”
Death on the Nile (1937)
It's so messy bleeding like a pig.
A Murder is Announced (1950)
The rottenness comes from within.
Death Comes as the End (1945)
Poirot twinkled at her gently.
Death in the Clouds (1935)
Men are foolish, are they not, Mademoiselle? To eat, to drink, to breathe the good air, it is a very pleasant thing, Mademoiselle. One is foolish to leave all that simply because one has no money — or because the heart aches. L´amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Take this Hercules — this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!
The Labours of Hercules (1967)
We shall not hunt together again, my friend. Our first hunt was here — and our last ... They were good days, Yes, they have been good days...
Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)
“No,” said Miss Marple. “Murder isn’t a game.
A Murder is Announced (1950)
Believe me, nurse, the difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop. At least that's the way it is with me when I have to make a speech. Someone's got to catch hold of my coat-tails and pull me down by main force.
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
What any woman saw in some particular man was beyond the comprehension of the average intelligent male. It just was so. A woman who could be intelligent about everything else in the world could be a complete fool when it came to some particular man.
After the Funeral (1953)
Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.
After the Funeral (1953)
“Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn’t recognize Latin when he hears it,” said Joanna
The Moving Finger (1942)
He had not remembered her name, but he had seen her dance — had been carried away and fascinated by the supreme art that can make you forget art.
The Labours of Hercules (1967)
Freckles are so earnest and Scottish.
The Moving Finger (1942)
I think perhaps it wasn't a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it's nice and hot by the fire, there's something about Gibbon that does, rather, make you go to sleep.
A Murder is Announced (1950)