I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.