Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

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

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!