Agatha Christie Doe Quotations

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!

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

Hate doesn't last. Love does.

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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]

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.