“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”

“I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”

“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”

“I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”

“To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.”

“But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”

“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 the most beautiful thought?

“Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.”

“To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.

“Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.”

“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”

“At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.”

“Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.”

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

“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.”

“It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.”

“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”

“I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. ”

“I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. ”

“One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”

“It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.”

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.”

“A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.”

“There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.”

“When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”

“At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.”

“One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.”

“Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.”

“They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.”

“She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.”

“A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves”

“Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.”

“Fear is incomplete knowledge”

“One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.”

“Be sure thy sin will find thee out.”

“Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...”

“He laughs best who laughs at the end.”

“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.”

“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”

“And then there were none.”

“The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.”

“Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.”

“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”

“To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.”

“It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”

“Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.”

“You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.”

“People who can be very good can be very bad too.”