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

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

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

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?