You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

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.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

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

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.