“Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!”

“From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.”

“Miss Bulstrode had another faculty which demonstrated her superiority over most other women. She could listen.”

“Because, you see, if the man were an invention—a fabrication—how much easier to make him disappear!”

“There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.”

“I have always disapproved of murder.”

“What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.”

“Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip”

“The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.”

“Oh, my dear friend, it is impossible not to give oneself away - unless one never opens one's mouth! Speech is the deadliest of revealers.”

“Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.”

“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”

“They say all the world loves a lover—apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.”

“We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.”

“I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.”

“It is not the past that matters,but the future”

“There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.”

“I love autumn. It’s so much richer than spring.”

“There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.”

“Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.”

“Six people were thinking of Rosemary Barton who had died nearly a year ago...”

“Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.”

“What are you doing, Poirot?" "I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.”

“Is death the greatest evil that can happen to anyone?”

“It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating thing!”

“If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.”

“I daresay idle tittle-tattle is very wrong and unkind, but it is so often true, isn't it.”

“those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one.”

“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.”

“Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.”

“They have a genius, young ladies, for getting into various kinds of trouble and difficulty.”

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

“Love can be a very frightening thing.”

“I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.”

“People will quite often do anything for money. - Jane Marple”

“You do think you know about everything," said her husband.

“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.”

“Nobody over fifty has got any sense.”

“Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.”

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

“They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!”

“Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner.”

“Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is”

“To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception”

“Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.”

“I think a woman smothered in cheap scent is one of the greatest abominations known to mankind - Lord Mayfield”

“Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple”

“What are murderers like? Some of them, have been thoroughly nice chaps.”

Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?

“It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.”