A rich man and his money are not so easily parted. Me, I have seen a well-known millionaire turn out a tramful of people to seek for a dropped halfpenny.
Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains – if you’ve got any. And, if necessary – act.
Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.
I like to see an angry Englishman,’ said Poirot. ‘They are very amusing.
An artist! An excuse for every kind of loose living, for drunkenness, for brawling, for infidelity.
It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.
How absurd to call youth the time of happiness–youth, the time of greatest vulnerability!
It’s no use resenting a thing that you’ve no power to stop.
Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there.
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.
Because I am Hercule Poirot, I do not need to be told.
Underhay’s death from fever in Africa had been established.
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
You have no sense of proportion, Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one’s clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.
Sarah King looked long and searchingly at Hercule Poirot. She noted the egg-shaped head, the gigantic moustaches, the dandified appearance and the suspicious blackness of hair.
A man is responsible for his deeds, and not just the deeds, but for the consequences of those deeds, as well.
Young people belong to their generation. We may think they’re unwise in many of their doings, but we have to accept their decisions.
He takes everything seriously. That is what makes him so difficult to live with.
A groan burst from Poirot. “What have I always told you? Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory – let the theory go.
It’s the Only Thing To Do,” he said, obviously speaking in capital letters.