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

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

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

there is evil everywhere under the sun.