Top 100 Quotes About Poirot
#1. Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it.
Agatha Christie
#2. I should hope, Mr. Poirot, that whatever our feelings, we can keep them in decent control. And we can certainly control our actions.
Agatha Christie
#3. What are you doing, Poirot?"
"I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.
Agatha Christie
#4. If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
Agatha Christie
#7. Well," said Adam, as Poirot went out. "First girls' knees, and now draughtsmanship! What next, I wonder!
Agatha Christie
#8. Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express
Agatha Christie
#9. A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty, remarked Hercule Poirot.
Agatha Christie
#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
#11. There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly.
Poirot said drily: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!
Agatha Christie
#12. 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
#13. There comes to everyone a turning point in their lives, M. Poirot. They stand at the crossroads and have to decide. My profession interests me enormously; it is a sorrow - a very great sorrow - to abandon it. But there are other claims. There is, M. Poirot, the happiness of a human being.
Agatha Christie
#14. A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.
Agatha Christie
#15. What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
Agatha Christie
#16. That is the worst of Poirot. Order and Method are his gods. He goes so far as to attribute all his success to them.
Agatha Christie
#17. I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.
Agatha Christie
#18. Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner.
Agatha Christie
#19. That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!"
"M. Poirot are you quite mad?"
"No, I am extremely sane.
Agatha Christie
#20. Pas encore. Qa m'amuse."
"Really, Poirot!"
"Yes, my friend. I grow old and childish, do I not?
Agatha Christie
#21. Hercule Poirot addressed himself to the task of keeping his moustaches out of the soup.
Agatha Christie
#22. Poirot and I behaved in the customary fashion of people being shown over houses. We stood stock still, looking a little ill at ease, murmuring remarks such as: "Very nice." "A very pleasant room." "The morning-room, you say?
Agatha Christie
#23. 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
#24. Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ...
Agatha Christie
#25. 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
#26. You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.
She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?'
You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'
That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
Agatha Christie
#27. I will not look through keyholes," I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. "Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.
Agatha Christie
#28. I've heard that you're the cat's whiskers, M. Poirot."
"Comment? The cat's whiskers? I do not understand."
"Well that you're It."
"Madame, I may or may not have brains - as a matter of fact I have - why pretend?
Agatha Christie
#29. A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?"
"You don't believe in it?"
"Do you?"
"There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.
Agatha Christie
#30. By Jove, Poirot,' I exclaimed, 'did you see that young goddess?' Poirot
Agatha Christie
#31. Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt
an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept over him. Yes, he should have become acquainted with the classics. Long ago. Now, alas, it was too late ...
Agatha Christie
#32. It would not have done Poirot any good whatever to state that his wishes were the precise opposite of hers in this respect. Nothing fascinated him more than the private passions of strangers he would probably never meet again.
Sophie Hannah
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie
#36. It is completely unimportant," said Poirot. "That is why it is so interesting," he added softly.
Agatha Christie
#37. 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
#38. We had reached Leastways Cottage, and Poirot ushered me upstairs to his own room. He offered me one of the tiny Russian cigarettes he himself occasionally smoked. I was amused to notice that he stowed away the used matches most carefully in a little china pot. My momentary annoyance vanished.
Agatha Christie
#39. [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
#40. You see," he said sadly, "you have no instincts."
"It was intelligence you were requiring just now," I pointed out.
"The two often go together," said Poirot enigmatically.
Agatha Christie
#41. It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
Agatha Christie
#42. The Coroner said graciously:
"I have heard of you, M. Poirot," and Poirot made an unsuccessful attempt to look modest.
Agatha Christie
#43. 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
#44. You're a man milliner, Poirot. I never notice what people have on."
"You should join a nudist colony
Agatha Christie
#45. Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.
Agatha Christie
#46. You weren't quite accurate just now."
"I? Not accurate?" Poirot sounded affronted.
Agatha Christie
#47. An air of infinite reluctance M. Poirot climbed aboard the train. The conductor climbed after him.
Agatha Christie
#48. Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.
Sophie Hannah
#49. I pass over the spectacle of Poirot on a camel. He started by groans and lamentations and ended by shrieks, gesticulations and invocations to the Virgin Mary and every Saint in the calendar. In the end, he descended ignominiously and finished the journey on a diminutive donkey.
Agatha Christie
#50. I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted in the humiliating belief that I am a transparent character and that anyone can read what is passing in my mind.
Agatha Christie
#51. Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage."
"To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does."
"Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.
Agatha Christie
#52. 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
#53. Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture.
Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
Agatha Christie
#54. In fact,' said Poirot, 'she stabbed him in the dark, not realising that he was dead already, but somehow deduced that he had a watch in his pyjama pocket, took it out, put back the hands blindly and gave it the requisite dent.
Agatha Christie
#55. 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.
Agatha Christie
#56. 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
#57. My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.
Agatha Christie
#58. 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
#59. You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.
Agatha Christie
#60. Hercule Poirot was sitting at the breakfast table. At his right hand was a steaming cup
Agatha Christie
#61. 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
#62. Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there.
Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.
Agatha Christie
#63. We established ourselves on the grassy knoll as Poirot had suggested,
Agatha Christie
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness!
Agatha Christie
#68. Ah, yes,' said Poirot. He was reflecting, and not for the first time, that seen from the back, shorts were becoming to very few of the female sex. He shut his eyes in pain.
Agatha Christie
#69. 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
#70. At all events, let us examine the position from the point of view of murder, not suicide."
"Oh, all right. If you are on the scene, it probably would be murder!"
For a moment Poirot smiled. "I hardly like that remark.
Agatha Christie
#71. In fact the marriage has been arranged by heaven and Hercule Poirot. All I have to do is to compound a felony.
Agatha Christie
#72. Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten.
Agatha Christie
#73. 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
#74. A large fierce-looking dog whom Poirot suspected of having mange growled from his position on a moderately comfortable fourth chair.
Agatha Christie
#75. I know exactly what he means. I had overheard Poirot talking to my parents. He was using words like "psychosis" and "schizophrenic". Words that people feel they have to whisper, or not repeat at all. The Mental-Illness-That-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Neal Shusterman
#76. 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
#77. Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding.
Agatha Christie
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
Agatha Christie
#81. 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
#82. I suffer," said Hercule Poirot to himself in acute self-pity. "Yes, I suffer.
Agatha Christie
#83. When I first started out, I absolutely begged my agent to get me a Poirot audition, and my wish came true - I did a Poirot! I need to do a Marple to round it off.
Kimberley Nixon
#84. Poirot said "you will find,M.le docteur,if you have much to do with cases of this kind,that they all resemble each other in one thing."
"what is that?" I asked curiously
"everyone concerned in them has something to hide
Agatha Christie
#85. 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
#86. Excuse me, Monsieur Poirot. If you'd like to ask any questions, I'm sure the doctor wouldn't mind.
Of course not. Of course not. Great admirer of yours, Monsieur Poirot. Little gray cells
order and method. I know all about it.
Doctor Roberts
Agatha Christie
#87. A loose tile; Poirot could not sleep in a room with such a thing.
Sophie Hannah
#88. Now we can talk," said Poirot. "When I say that, I mean, really, that I shall talk.
Agatha Christie
#90. Ahh it rejoices the heart. Nothing here offends the eye"
~Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)
Agatha Christie
#91. In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
Agatha Christie
#92. What would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn't flap around in a panic. He'd stay calm and use his little grey cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything.
Sophie Kinsella
#93. How absurd to call youth the time of happiness - youth, the time of greatest vulnerability! - Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
#94. No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?
Poirot
Agatha Christie
#95. Poirot smoothed his mustache, as if he imagined that laughing might have shaken it out of shape.
Sophie Hannah
#96. My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine.
Agatha Christie
#97. And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-"
"Ah, no, my friend-"
"From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.
Agatha Christie
#98. 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
#99. You know, Maureen, I seem to have seen that name somewhere." "Home Perm, perhaps. He looks like a hairdresser." Poirot winced.
Agatha Christie
#100. 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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