Hastings Poirot Quotes

#1. A kind Providence has so skilfully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#2. The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

Martin McGuinness

#3. I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

Josh Homme

#4. To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

Billy West

#5. One could write a play about such an idea." "It has been done," said Poirot. "But console yourself, Hastings," he added kindly. "Because a theme has been used once, there is no reason why it should not be used again. Compose your drama.

Agatha Christie

#6. I don't want to write about it at all.
I want, you see, to think about it as little as possible. Hercule Poirot was dead - and with him died a good part of Arthur Hastings.

Agatha Christie

#7. Let me tell you this, Hastings. She would never forgive me if I let Alfred Inglethorp, her husband, be arrested now - when a word from me could save him!

Agatha Christie

#8. So you think that the coco- mark well what I say, Hastings, the coco- contained strychnine?"
"Of course! That salt on the tray, what else could it have been?"
"It might have been salt." replied Poirot placidly.

Agatha Christie

#9. A successful person is one who by God's grace and mercy is continuously maturing in his thoughts, in his conversation, and in his deeds to practice the revealed will of God and proving it according to His Word.

Tim Yarbrough

#10. Poirot was standing in the larder in a dramtic attitude. In his hand he was brandishing a leg of mutton.
'My dear Poirot! What is the matter? have you gone mad?'
'Regard i pray you this mutton! But regard it closely!

Agatha Christie

#11. As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

Alice Walker