Top 67 Hercule Quotes

#1. What are you doing, Poirot?"
"I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #19581
#2. If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #26851
#3. I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #29480
#4. Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #37831
#5. The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #40895
#6. A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty, remarked Hercule Poirot.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #119484
#7. Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #119670
#8. Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #124952
#9. But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #131781
#10. In case, I would prefer to say, that some circumstances should strike me in a different light to the one in which it struck you. Human reactions vary and so does human experience.

~Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #136191
#11. And suddenly, with a terrific shock, with that feeling as of blurring on a cinematograph screen before the picture comes to focus, Hercule Poirot realized that this artificially set scene had a point of reality ...

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #191401
#12. Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #308711
#13. I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #337688
#14. Hercule Poirot addressed himself to the task of keeping his moustaches out of the soup.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #340496
#15. It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #341150
#16. Why, he's Hercule Poirot! You know who I mean - the private detective. They say he's done the most wonderful things - just like detectives do in books.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #359107
#17. Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #391853
#18. He was a man of whom nearly everybody was a little afraid. Why this last was so can hardly be stated in definite words. There was a feeling, perhaps, that he knew a little too much about everybody. And there was a feeling, too, that his sense of humor was a curious one.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #403626
#19. Fellow has the wrong clothes and all that. French chap-or Belgian. Queer fellow, but he's got the goods all right.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #423761
#20. Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #511138
#21. Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #522586
#22. It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality ... We've only one life to live.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #523640
#23. It is the sex angle that sells stories, that makes news. give people scandal allied to sex and it appeals far more than any mere political chicanery or fraud. (Hercule Poirot)

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #578438
#24. [About Poirot] The flamboyant moustaches, the sartorial elegance, the white spats and the pointed patent leather shoes all filled this insular young man with distinct misgivings.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #635238
#25. At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #660255
#26. It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

Agatha Christie

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#27. The Coroner said graciously:
"I have heard of you, M. Poirot," and Poirot made an unsuccessful attempt to look modest.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #697155
#28. I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #701291
#29. But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #715378
#30. Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #729293
#31. What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #735662
#32. Guy Carpenter frowned and came into the drawing room through the window. He had a long face like a horse, he was pale and looked rather supercilious. His manner was pompous. Hercule Poirot found him unattractive.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #889741
#33. Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture.
Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #923069
#34. 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

Hercule Quotes #970500
#35. If you've lost, you've lost.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #1006157
#36. There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good.

Agatha Christie

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#37. You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.

Agatha Christie

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#38. Hercule Poirot was sitting at the breakfast table. At his right hand was a steaming cup

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #1094163
#39. There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

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#40. 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!

Agatha Christie

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#41. I am all that there is of the most real.

Agatha Christie

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#42. Man is an unoriginal animal, said Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

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#43. Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

Agatha Christie

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#44. 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

Hercule Quotes #1303001
#45. In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony.

Agatha Christie

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#46. There comes a point in most cases - and by no means only those in which Hercule Poirot has involved himself - when one starts to feel that it would be a greater comfort, and actually no less effective, to talk only to oneself and dispense with all attempts to communicate with the outside world.

Sophie Hannah

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#47. It is romantic, yes,' agreed Hercule Poirot. 'It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun'.

Agatha Christie

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#48. I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster

P.G. Wodehouse

Hercule Quotes #1456294
#49. 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.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #1468471
#50. But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn.
"She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed.
"Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette.

Agatha Christie

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#51. My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

Agatha Christie

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#52. Mon ami,' said Poirot with dignity, 'when I commit a murder it will not be with the arrow poison of the South American Indians.

Agatha Christie

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#53. I suffer," said Hercule Poirot to himself in acute self-pity. "Yes, I suffer.

Agatha Christie

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#54. You might start a new religion yourself, with the creed: 'There is no one so clever as Hercule Poirot, Amen, D. C. Repeat ad lib.'!

Agatha Christie

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#55. I, Hercule Poirot, am not amused.

Agatha Christie

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#56. Ahh it rejoices the heart. Nothing here offends the eye"
~Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)

Agatha Christie

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#57. In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Agatha Christie

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#58. The two words expressed volumes.

Agatha Christie

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#59. How absurd to call youth the time of happiness - youth, the time of greatest vulnerability! - Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile

Agatha Christie

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#60. wanted to know." "It's better not to know. It's better never to know. Better to leave things as they are. Not push and pry and poke." "You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth." Michael

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #1731301
#61. I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

Agatha Christie

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#62. Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #1796108
#63. I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I already have a cat called Hercule!

Kimberley Nixon

Hercule Quotes #1797030
#64. You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes- two people. One is le bon Dieu - and the other is Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #1813962
#65. Yeah. I'm the secret love child of Hercule Poirot and Lisbeth Salander.

Salla Simukka

Hercule Quotes #1827186
#66. Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him.

Agatha Christie

Hercule Quotes #1858698
#67. It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

Agatha Christie

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