The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

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

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.