Best Poirot Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean." "Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so." "Why?" "Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle." "'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Lenox laughed. "That is not going to be true for me." "Yes--yes, it is true. You are young, younger than you yourself know. Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it." The whistle of the engine came again. "Trust the train, Mademoiselle," murmured Poirot again. "And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows.”

Love Life Trust Train Poirot

Book:The Mystery of the Blue Train

Source: The Mystery of the Blue Train

“Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.” “I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.”

Truth Poirot

Book:Cards on the Table

Source: Cards on the Table

“For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!”

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Book:Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Source: Mrs. McGinty's Dead

“Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child? Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.”

Mothers Poirot

Book:Cat Among the Pigeons

Source: Cat Among the Pigeons

“Softly unbolting the door, he stuck the cat’s head round the edge and ejaculated a piercing "Miaow." The Scotland Yard inspector, who was standing outside with another man, jumped in spite of himself.”

Humour Cat Poirot

Book:The Adventure of the Cheap Flat: A Short Story

Source: The Adventure of the Cheap Flat: A Short Story

“[...] Because, in all this house of mourning, yours are the only eyes that have wept.”

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Book:The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Poirot Investigates

Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Poirot Investigates

“My last name is Poirot, like Agatha Christie's famous detective Hercule Poirot; no relation to the fictional character.”

“I've watched every episode of Poirot and Midsomer Murders on TV. I never guess the ending and I can't wait for the moment when the detective gathers all the suspects in the room and, like a magician conjuring silk scarves out of the air, makes the whole thing make sense.”

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Book:Magpie Murders

Source: Magpie Murders

“Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before.”

English Poirot Foreshadow

Book:The Mystery of the Blue Train

Source: The Mystery of the Blue Train

“What will you? When one is unique, one knows it! And others share that opinion -- even, if I mistake not, Miss Mary Marvell.”

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Author:Agatha Christie

“Oh please tell me we're not doing the Poirot thing again — the suspects in the library with the candlestick or whatever'. Max looked at him [DCI Cotton]. 'Fruitcake in this case. And what would you prefer? A car chase? It’s the most efficient way to flush out a killer, as Dame Agatha Christie well knew.”

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Book:A Demon Summer

Source: A Demon Summer

“The machine, mon ami, wears or. One cannot, alas, install the new engine and continue to run as before like a motor car.”

Aging Mortality Poirot Wearing Out

Book:Curtain

Source: Curtain

“—Então o senhor tem uma teoria? —Um detetive, M. Martin, sempre tem uma teoria. É o que se espera dele. Pessoalmente, não chamo de teoria. Digo que é uma ideiazinha. Essa é a primeira fase. —E a segunda? —Se a ideiazinha for acertada, então eu sei! É bastante simples, como se vê. —Gostaria que me dissesse qual é a sua teoria... ou ideiazinha.”

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Book:Lord Edgware Dies

Source: Lord Edgware Dies

“Hastings, my good fellow, your premonitions are never wrong, even if after the fact, when you write your account of the dastardly deeds.”

Poirot Hastings

Book:The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“Poirot, you really have the best opinion of yourself of anyone I've ever known', he declared. 'What will you? When one is unique, one knows it.”

Unique Black Coffee Poirot Hastings

Author:Agatha Christie