There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.
Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.
Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.
I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."
Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.
Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.
Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?
You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.
One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.
Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.
Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.
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