poirot

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58b864a	"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."	detective express fiction hercule murder orient poirot	Agatha Christie
fe91aca	At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.	detective express fiction hercule murder orient poirot	Agatha Christie
9c5126f	"Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with his poisoned cocktail! Anyone might have drunk it! It might have been me!" "There is an even more terrible possibility that you have not considered," said Poirot. "Eh?" "It might have been me," said Hercule Poirot."	hercule-poirot humor mystery poirot poison	Agatha Christie
87d4f9b	"I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced at the clock as I reached for the sugar tongs, and Lady Favisham was quite clearly sitting on the right-hand side of the fireplace." Bollocks. They have no idea where Lady Favisham was, they just don't want to admit it in front of Poirot. I'm amazed he gets anywhere."	humor poirot	Sophie Kinsella
e3be232	"Poirot said placidly, "One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this - " he tapped his egg-shaped head - "this, that functions!"	poirot	Agatha Christie
d4c4d1a	"Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean." "Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so." "Why?" "Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle." "'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Lenox laughed. "That is not going to be true for me." "Yes--yes, it is true. You are young, younger than you yourself know. Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it." The whistle of the engine came again. "Trust the train, Mademoiselle," murmured Poirot again. "And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows."	love poirot train trust	Agatha Christie
3c26abc	Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.	agatha-christie bestselling christie fiction hercule hercule-poirot mystery poirot suspense	Agatha Christie
b893a73	"But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn. "She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed. "Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette."	poirot	Agatha Christie
097015d	"For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!"	humor metaphor metaphors mixed-metaphor poirot	Agatha Christie
c4dffc3	Put that in your mustache and smoke it.	funny humor mrs-oliver poirot	Agatha Christie
1555966	The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.	poirot	Agatha Christie
e209332	There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good.	hercule-poirot humorous moustaches mustaches poirot	Agatha Christie
d6f3c9e	I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.	poirot	Agatha Christie
b35cd48	"Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before."	foreshadow poirot	Agatha Christie
b24232a	"Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it."	poirot	Agatha Christie
869e4cf	These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble.	humour poirot	Agatha Christie
0387378	There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!	christmas christmas-spirit hypocrisy poirot	Agatha Christie
4514818	Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child? Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.	poirot	Agatha Christie
ca9cc91	Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner.	humor poirot	Agatha Christie
bb7c462	"He rose, placed another small log on the fire, sat back down in his armchair, and opened his book. "What are you reading?" Reggie asked. "On a wild night like this? Agatha Christie, of course. I still feel compelled to see if Hercule Poirot's 'little gray cells' will do their job one more time. It seems to often inspire my own brain, however inferior it might be to the diminutive Belgian's."	baldacci poirot tribute	David Baldacci

58b864a

"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."

detective express fiction hercule murder orient poirot

Agatha Christie

fe91aca

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

detective express fiction hercule murder orient poirot

Agatha Christie

9c5126f

"Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with his poisoned cocktail! Anyone might have drunk it! It might have been me!" "There is an even more terrible possibility that you have not considered," said Poirot. "Eh?" "It might have been me," said Hercule Poirot."

hercule-poirot humor mystery poirot poison

Agatha Christie

87d4f9b

"I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly, because I glanced at the clock as I reached for the sugar tongs, and Lady Favisham was quite clearly sitting on the right-hand side of the fireplace." Bollocks. They have no idea where Lady Favisham was, they just don't want to admit it in front of Poirot. I'm amazed he gets anywhere."

humor poirot

Sophie Kinsella

e3be232

"Poirot said placidly, "One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this - " he tapped his egg-shaped head - "this, that functions!"

poirot

Agatha Christie

d4c4d1a

"Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean." "Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so." "Why?" "Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle." "'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Lenox laughed. "That is not going to be true for me." "Yes--yes, it is true. You are young, younger than you yourself know. Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it." The whistle of the engine came again. "Trust the train, Mademoiselle," murmured Poirot again. "And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows."

love poirot train trust

Agatha Christie

3c26abc

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

agatha-christie bestselling christie fiction hercule hercule-poirot mystery poirot suspense

Agatha Christie

b893a73

"But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn. "She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed. "Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette."

poirot

Agatha Christie

097015d

"For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!"

humor metaphor metaphors mixed-metaphor poirot

Agatha Christie

c4dffc3

Put that in your mustache and smoke it.

funny humor mrs-oliver poirot

Agatha Christie

1555966

The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.

poirot

Agatha Christie

e209332

There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good.

hercule-poirot humorous moustaches mustaches poirot

Agatha Christie

d6f3c9e

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

poirot

Agatha Christie

b35cd48

"Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like that, Mademoiselle. There are things that are not yet, but which cast their shadow before."

foreshadow poirot

Agatha Christie

b24232a

"Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it."

poirot

Agatha Christie

869e4cf

These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble.

humour poirot

Agatha Christie

0387378

There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!

christmas christmas-spirit hypocrisy poirot

Agatha Christie

4514818

Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child? Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.

poirot

Agatha Christie

ca9cc91

Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner.

humor poirot

Agatha Christie

bb7c462

"He rose, placed another small log on the fire, sat back down in his armchair, and opened his book. "What are you reading?" Reggie asked. "On a wild night like this? Agatha Christie, of course. I still feel compelled to see if Hercule Poirot's 'little gray cells' will do their job one more time. It seems to often inspire my own brain, however inferior it might be to the diminutive Belgian's."

baldacci poirot tribute

David Baldacci