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Conflict is just another chance for agreement.
— Ken Poirot
In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
— Agatha Christie
We established ourselves on the grassy knoll as Poirot had suggested,
— Agatha Christie
Well," said Adam, as Poirot went out. "First girls' knees, and now draughtsmanship! What next, I wonder!
— Agatha Christie
Pas encore. Qa m'amuse.""Really, Poirot!"
"Yes, my friend. I grow old and childish, do I not? — Agatha Christie
If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
— Agatha Christie
Now we can talk," said Poirot. "When I say that, I mean, really, that I shall talk.
— Agatha Christie
How absurd to call youth the time of happiness - youth, the time of greatest vulnerability! - Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile
— Agatha Christie
I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.
— Agatha Christie
Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express
— Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him.
— Agatha Christie
Fellow has the wrong clothes and all that. French chap-or Belgian. Queer fellow, but he's got the goods all right.
— Agatha Christie
Even the most beautiful girl in the world becomes unsightly without depth of character.
— Ken Poirot
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that. — Agatha Christie
A large fierce-looking dog whom Poirot suspected of having mange growled from his position on a moderately comfortable fourth chair.
— Agatha Christie
Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts. — Agatha Christie
Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.
— Agatha Christie
Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there.Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well. — Agatha Christie
I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.
— Agatha Christie
If you've lost, you've lost.
— Agatha Christie
Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.
— Agatha Christie
These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble.
— Agatha Christie
Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!
— Agatha Christie
Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.
— Agatha Christie
That is the worst of Poirot. Order and Method are his gods. He goes so far as to attribute all his success to them.
— Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner.
— Agatha Christie
Man is an unoriginal animal, said Hercule Poirot
— Agatha Christie
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
— Agatha Christie
The world is full of good people who do bad things!
— Agatha Christie
The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.
— Agatha Christie
The Coroner said graciously:"I have heard of you, M. Poirot," and Poirot made an unsuccessful attempt to look modest. — Agatha Christie
You might start a new religion yourself, with the creed: 'There is no one so clever as Hercule Poirot, Amen, D. C. Repeat ad lib.'!
— Agatha Christie
The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.
— Agatha Christie
It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.
— Agatha Christie
You know, Maureen, I seem to have seen that name somewhere." "Home Perm, perhaps. He looks like a hairdresser." Poirot winced.
— Agatha Christie
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
— Agatha Christie
Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.
— Agatha Christie
I enrage myself with an imbecile. I say, 'I would like to kick him.' Instead I kick the table. I say, 'This table, it is the imbecile, I kick him so.
— Agatha Christie
Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.
— Ken Poirot
One act of betrayal can shatter a lifetime of trust.
— Ken Poirot
Poirot smoothed his mustache, as if he imagined that laughing might have shaken it out of shape.
— Sophie Hannah
You're a man milliner, Poirot. I never notice what people have on.""You should join a nudist colony — Agatha Christie
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking.""An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it. — Agatha Christie
Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness!
— Agatha Christie
Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten.
— Agatha Christie
...you can always agree on one thing. You can shake hands, smile, and say, 'Yes...we will have to agree to disagree.
— Ken Poirot
But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.
— Agatha Christie
Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
— Agatha Christie
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhapsat least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there. — Agatha Christie
Ahh it rejoices the heart. Nothing here offends the eye"~Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie) — Agatha Christie
By Jove, Poirot,' I exclaimed, 'did you see that young goddess?' Poirot
— Agatha Christie
You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.
— Agatha Christie
Build a bridge by extending your hand.
— Ken Poirot
But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.
— Agatha Christie
My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine.
— Agatha Christie
Miss Bulstrode had another faculty which demonstrated her superiority over most other women. She could listen.
— Agatha Christie
An air of infinite reluctance M. Poirot climbed aboard the train. The conductor climbed after him.
— Agatha Christie
It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
— Agatha Christie
I should hope, Mr. Poirot, that whatever our feelings, we can keep them in decent control. And we can certainly control our actions.
— Agatha Christie
Put that in your mustache and smoke it.
— Agatha Christie
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
It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality ... We've only one life to live.
— Agatha Christie
In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony.
— Agatha Christie
Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
— Agatha Christie
A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.
— Agatha Christie
I am all that there is of the most real.
— Agatha Christie
My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.
— Agatha Christie
Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.
— Sophie Hannah
The two words expressed volumes.
— Agatha Christie
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.
— Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot was sitting at the breakfast table. At his right hand was a steaming cup
— Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot addressed himself to the task of keeping his moustaches out of the soup.
— Agatha Christie
The best meals are those prepared by loving hands.
— Ken Poirot
It is completely unimportant," said Poirot. "That is why it is so interesting," he added softly.
— Agatha Christie
You begins with 'Y'-so ask, observe, and listen.
— Ken Poirot
Mon ami,' said Poirot with dignity, 'when I commit a murder it will not be with the arrow poison of the South American Indians.
— Agatha Christie
Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ...
— Agatha Christie
The only time that exists in life is now.
— Ken Poirot
You weren't quite accurate just now.""I? Not accurate?" Poirot sounded affronted. — Agatha Christie
I, Hercule Poirot, am not amused.
— Agatha Christie