“One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.”
Fuente: And Then There Were None
“One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.”
Fuente: And Then There Were None
“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.”
Fuente: Sad Cypress
“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”
Fuente: A Murder Is Announced
“Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”
Fuente: A Caribbean Mystery
“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”
Fuente: Death in the Clouds
“It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.”
Sleeping Murder (1976)
“The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.”
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
“Children and one’s social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for them.”
The Burden (1956)
“It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.”
The Labours of Hercules (1967)
“One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.”
Death in the Clouds (1935)
“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
Fuente: Peril at End House
Christie denied having made this remark, which had been attributed to her by her second husband Sir Max Mallowan in a news report (9 March 1954); according to Nigel Dennis, "Genteel Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder", Life, Volume 40, N° 20, 14 May 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=p0wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102, she was quoting "a witty wife"; Quote Investigator reports on "An Archaeologist Is the Best Husband a Woman Can Have" as of uncertain origin. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/12/husband/
Disputed
Variante: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
Fuente: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.”
Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)
Contexto: I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what I have done is justified or not justified. No — I do not know. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands... But on the other hand, I am the law! As a young man in the Belgian police force I shot down a desperate criminal who sat on a roof and fired at people below. In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.