Poirot Quotes
28 quotes by 5 authors
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You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.
— Agatha Christie
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If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
— Agatha Christie
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Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
— Agatha Christie
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Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
— Agatha Christie
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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…
— Agatha Christie
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No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not…
— Agatha Christie
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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said.…
— Agatha Christie
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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,…
— Agatha Christie
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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…
— Agatha Christie
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Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express
— Agatha Christie
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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
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Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up…
— Agatha Christie
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And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let…
— Agatha Christie
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That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and…
— Agatha Christie
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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
— Agatha Christie
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In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
— Agatha Christie
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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control…
— Agatha Christie
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My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
— Agatha Christie
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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
— Agatha Christie
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Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to…
— Agatha Christie
Who Wrote These Poirot Quotes
5 authors contributed a total of 28 Poirot Quotes as follows: