Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking..

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island..

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

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….

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself..

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer..

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….

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true..

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one..

Be sure thy sin will find thee out..

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?.

Very few of us are what we seem..

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy..

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic..

With method and logic one can accomplish anything..

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

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the ….

there is evil everywhere under the sun..

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves.

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosop….

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that..