Very few of us are what we seem.

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

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

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