I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there..

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….

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….

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express.

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

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective..

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..

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good..

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

Books are a habit-forming drug..

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sof….

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery..

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one w….

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

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….

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting..

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 would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories..

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….

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

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things..