Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do..

Books are a habit-forming drug..

Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's….

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none..

I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is ….

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are..

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations..

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 s….

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a ….

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness..

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea..

There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands..

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretendin….

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and wi….

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, sm….

I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the i….

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in l….

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….

Hate doesn't last. Love does..

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking..