“...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.”

“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.”