Hercule Poirot Quotes

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.

All these here are linked together - by death.

The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Because, you see, if the man were an invention—a fabrication—how much easier to make him disappear!

The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.

Coffee, then, Madame. You need some stimulant.

Hercule Poirot addressed himself to the task of keeping his moustaches out of the soup.

If you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs.

“I know how I, Hercule Poirot, would act in anything, but I do not know how you would act, well though I know you.”

″‘Your instinct was quite correct. It’s happened.’ Poirot straightened up and asked sharply: ‘What has happened?’ ‘Linnet Doyle’s dead...‘”

“My dear Monsieur Poirot—how can I put it? It’s like the moon when the sun comes out. You don’t know it’s there anymore. When once I’d met Linnet—Jackie didn’t exist.”

“Poirot was silent. But it was not a modest silence. His eyes seemed to be saying: ‘You are wrong. They didn’t allow for Hercule Poirot.‘”

“I will do what I can in the interests of humanity.”