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Poirot QUOTES

Poirot QUOTES

1 " Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. " It is an art," he murmured, " the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it. "

2 " You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. " Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. " If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said. "

3 " I gather," he added, " that you've never had much time to study the classics?" " That is so." " Pity. Pity. You've missed a lot. Everyone should be made to study the classics, if I had my way." Poirot shrugged his shou "

4 " Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean." " Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so." " Why?" " Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle." " 'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Lenox laughed. " That is not going to be true for me." " Yes--yes, it is true. You are young, younger than you yourself know. Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it." The whistle of the engine came again." Trust the train, Mademoiselle," murmured Poirot again. " And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows. "

5 " 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. "

― Agatha Christie , The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #3)

6 " Use your little grey cells mon ami" (Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles') "

7 " One must always proceed with method. I made an error of judgment asking you that question. Toeach man his own knowledge. You could tell me the details of the patient's physical appearance- nothing there would escape you. If I wanted information about the papers on the desk, Mr. Raymond would have noticed anything there was to see. To find out about the fire, I must ask the man whose business is to observe such things. - Detective Hercule Poirot to Doctor Sheppard "

― Agatha Christie , The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #3)

8 " Oh please tell me we're not doing the Poirot thing again — the suspects in the library with the candlestick or whatever'.

Max looked at him [DCI Cotton]. 'Fruitcake in this case. And what would you prefer? A car chase? It’s the most efficient way to flush out a killer, as Dame Agatha Christie well knew. "

― G.M. Malliet , A Demon Summer (Max Tudor #4)

9 " He dragged me back - just in time. A tree had crashed down on to the side walk, just missing us. Poirot stared at it, pale and upset. " It was a near thing that! But clumsy, all the same - for I had no suspicion - at least hardly any suspicion. Yes, but for my quick eyes, the eyes of a cat, Hercule Poirot might now be crushed out of existence - a terrible calamity for the world. And you, too, mon ami - though that would not be such a national catastrophe." " Thank you," I said coldly. "

10 " I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted in the humiliating belief that I am a transparent character and that anyone can read what is passing in my mind. "

― Agatha Christie , Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34)

11 " You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.

She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?'

You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'

That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion. "

― Agatha Christie , Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #9)

12 " For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, " there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house! "