“Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.”

“I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been”

“That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.”

No, I wouldn't. I wouldn’t tell a soul.' 'People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it.”

“It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!”

“It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been very much present in your mind during that period.”

“Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.”

“One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.”

“The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

“What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought.”

“The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.”

“The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.”

“Truth is seldom romantic.”

“How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.”

“If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.”

“In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerablle to temptation. (Mr. Barnes)”

“One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.”

“A diary is useful for recording the idiosyncrasies of other people—but not one’s own.”

“Why didn't they ask the Evans?”

“Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”

“Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.”

“When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.”

“Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman-probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.”

“Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten.”

“Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.”

“If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go”

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them”

“I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.”

“Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.”

“...You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.”

“One always has hope for human nature”

“I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.”

“One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.”

“I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.”

“You want beauty,” said Hercule Poirot. “Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.”

“If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.”

“It is completely unimportant,” said Poirot. “That is why it is so interesting,” he added softly.”

“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased... There is a great charity always to the dead.”

“Tea's a thing that need never be finished.”

“I have learned to save myself useless emotion.”

“Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!”

“What alchemy there was in human beings.”

“There is no such thing as a really calm sea. Always, always, there is motion.”

“But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.”

“Most of the rich people I've known have been fairly miserable.”

“These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble.”

“Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple”

“A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.”

“And that very same evening - that very same evening - Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”

“Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.”