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One forgets how human murderers are. (Agatha Christie)
Is he then an unhappy man?” Poirot said: "So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.” The nun said softly: "Ah, a rich man... View quote
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The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw. View quote
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I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not - how shall I express it? - a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain - I think an Anglo-Saxon brain. View quote
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He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves. View quote
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"You do well. Method and order, they are everything,” replied Poirot. View quote
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Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, and Mrs. Oliver always claimed the right to justify the particular intuition which turned out to be right! View quote
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On the seat opposite him was an American tourist. The pattern of his clothes, of his overcoat, the grip he carried, down to his hopeful friendliness and his naïve absorption in the scenery, even the guidebook in his hand, all gave him away and proclaimed him a small town American seeing Europe for the first time. In another minute or so, Poirot judged, he would break into speech. His wistful dog-like expression could not be mistaken. View quote
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These little things are very significant. View quote
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Flattery, in Tuppence's opinion, should always be laid on with a trowel where a man is concerned. View quote
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An Englishman thinks first of his work - his job, he calls it - and then of his sport, and last - a good way last - of his wife. (Agatha Christie)
It was a very British and utterly unconvincing performance. View quote
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It would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons. View quote
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Précisément! The body - the cage - is everything of the most respectable - but through the bars, the wild animal looks out. View quote
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Tout de même, it is not necessary that he should be killed on the Orient Express. There are other places. View quote
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Men are foolish, are they not, Mademoiselle? To eat, to drink, to breathe the good air, it is a very pleasant thing, Mademoiselle. One is foolish to leave all that simply because one has no money - or because the heart aches. L´amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not? View quote
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Yes, my friend,' he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American... View quote
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Let us think only of the good days that are to come. View quote
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It's so dreadfully easy - killing people... And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter... That it's only you that matters! It's dangerous - that. View quote
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The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist. View quote
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Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort. (Agatha Christie)
It merely confirmed in him his long-held belief that you should never believe anything anyone said without first checking it. Suspect everybody, had been for many years, if not his whole life, one of his first axioms. View quote
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I don't think I shall ever forget my first sight of Hercule Poirot. Of course, I got used to him later on, but to begin with it was a shock, and I think everyone else must have felt the same! I don't know what I'd imagined - something like Sherlock Holmes - [...] Of course, I knew he was a foreigner, but I hadn't expected him to be quite as foreign as he was, if you know what I mean. When you saw him you just wanted to laugh! He was like something on the stage or at the pictures. [...] He looked like a hairdresser in a comic play! View quote
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I agree with you. It is here a family affair. It is a poison that works in the blood - it is intimate - it is deep-seated. There is here, I think, hate and knowledge... View quote
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Tout de même,” said Poirot, "since I cannot find anything, eh bien, then the logic falls out of the window. View quote
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