What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's..

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts..

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to pr….

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool..

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge t….

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 intel….

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating..

I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What s….

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!.

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth..

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out ….

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself….

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Comprom….

One place is very like another..

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person kno….

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person….

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impresse….

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly tha….

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it..

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving..