Top 66 Quotes About Hercule Poirot
#3. In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony.
Agatha Christie
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
Agatha Christie
#9. I suffer," said Hercule Poirot to himself in acute self-pity. "Yes, I suffer.
Agatha Christie
#10. 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
#11. Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
Agatha Christie
#12. Ahh it rejoices the heart. Nothing here offends the eye"
~Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)
Agatha Christie
#13. In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
Agatha Christie
#14. How absurd to call youth the time of happiness - youth, the time of greatest vulnerability! - Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
#15. 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
#16. 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
#18. 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
#19. Yeah. I'm the secret love child of Hercule Poirot and Lisbeth Salander.
Salla Simukka
#20. Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him.
Agatha Christie
#21. Hercule Poirot was sitting at the breakfast table. At his right hand was a steaming cup
Agatha Christie
#22. 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
#23. If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
Agatha Christie
#24. The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.
Agatha Christie
#25. A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty, remarked Hercule Poirot.
Agatha Christie
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner.
Agatha Christie
#29. Hercule Poirot addressed himself to the task of keeping his moustaches out of the soup.
Agatha Christie
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture.
Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
Agatha Christie
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.
Agatha Christie
#40. 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
#41. The Coroner said graciously:
"I have heard of you, M. Poirot," and Poirot made an unsuccessful attempt to look modest.
Agatha Christie
#42. But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.
Agatha Christie
#43. Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
Agatha Christie
#44. What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought.
Agatha Christie
#46. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#53. It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.
Agatha Christie
#54. It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
Agatha Christie
#55. 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
#56. [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
#57. It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality ... We've only one life to live.
Agatha Christie
#58. Fellow has the wrong clothes and all that. French chap-or Belgian. Queer fellow, but he's got the goods all right.
Agatha Christie
#59. 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
#60. Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.
Agatha Christie
#61. 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
#62. But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.
Agatha Christie
#63. Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.
Agatha Christie
#65. I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.
Agatha Christie
#66. What are you doing, Poirot?"
"I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.
Agatha Christie
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