What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.