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….

Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband..

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate dispos….

Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjama….

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….

a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem….

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….

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

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 ….

And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left..

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..

Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I mus….

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are p….

There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoist….

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, po….

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

Hate doesn't last. Love does..

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself..

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings.

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was….

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..