“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.”

“Go away where you're loved and taken care of and looked after.”

“… one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street.”

“He felt lost without his hatred–lost and afraid.

“Anybody who can belive six impossible things before breakfast wins hands down in this game.”

“Conversations are always dangerous if you have something to hide, " said Miss Marple”

“Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.”

“To see ourselves as others see us!”

“A man travels fastest who travels alone.”

“There's no doubt about what the man's profession has been. He's a retired hairdresser. Look at that moustache of his.”

“Mr. Beresford put down the Daily Mail, which he was reading, and applauded with somewhat unnecessary vigour. He was politely requested by his colleague not to be an ass.”

“I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.”

“With women, love always comes first.”

“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”

“Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating about them.”

“There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us.”

“In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony.”

“always bear in mind that the person who speaks may be lying”

“Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: they distract the mind from food!”

“That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.”

“You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you.”

“Let us think only of the good days that are to come.”

“Poison has a certain appeal … It has not the crudeness of the revolver bullet or the blunt weapon.”

“People in the dark are quite different, aren’t they?”

“The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.”

“I know he'll probably always be like it, but I love him. I may be able to help him and I may not. But I'll take that risk.”

“Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.”

“There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.”

“...the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...”

“In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out."