Hercule Quotes

Hercule Quote of the day

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

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

It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.

And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

Use your little grey cells mon ami" (Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles')

The two words expressed volumes.

Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.