“In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. . . . We've only one life to live.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains---if you've got any. And, if necessary--act.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Hercule Poirot addressed himself to the task of keeping his moustaches out of the soup.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“You don't have to VENERATE Hercule Poirot, Ms. Christie, but he didn't deserve to be VILIFIED , either!” — Johanna Oznowicz Copy Share Image
“What are you doing, Poirot?" "I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Use your little grey cells mon ami" (Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles')” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Really, my friend! But I will not sit back and say ‘le bon Dieu has arranged everything, I will not interfere.’ Because… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He did not know the methods of Hercule Poirot. I do not run to and fro, making journeys, and agitating myself. My… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He was a man of whom nearly everybody was a little afraid. Why this last was so can hardly be stated in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Poirot realized with a momentary flicker of amusement that he had not made himself popular by his critical attitude. Linnet was used… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It is the sex angle that sells stories, that makes news. give people scandal allied to sex and it appeals far more… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“You might start a new religion yourself, with the creed: 'There is no one so clever as Hercule Poirot, Amen, D. C.… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“What do you expect Cust to tell you?" Hercule Poirot smiled. "A lie," he said. "And by it, I shall know the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“So,' I said, partly to Magda, partly to myself, 'Rema left Argentina with this An-a-to-le person.' I adopted the four-syllable pronunciation with… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
“And suddenly, with a terrific shock, with that feeling as of blurring on a cinematograph screen before the picture comes to focus,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn. "She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed. "Then Hercule Poirot has… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Guy Carpenter frowned and came into the drawing room through the window. He had a long face like a horse, he was… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
