I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.
As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.
Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.
Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.