Hercule Poirot Quotes

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

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.

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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

It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

The two words expressed volumes.

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!