Hercule Poirot quotes from Agatha Christie's Poirot

Poirot

Unless the affair is one of national importance, I touch it not.

Poirot

Do they think they can get rid of Hercule Poirot like that? No! No-no-no-no-no-no! 36 times NO!!

Poirot

[About the guinea he earned] It is to me, Hastings, a little reminder never to despise the trivial or the undignified. A disappearing domestic at one end, a cold-blooded murder at the other.

Hercule Poirot

Prevention of crime is not what policemen are best at. They will need to have one constable for every citizen and go everywhere with him. [gesturing to his head] But fortunately for the human race, most of us have our own little policeman up here.

Poirot

You know, Mademoiselle Patricia, I once loved a very young beautiful English girl who resembled you greatly. But, alas, she could not cook. And the relationship withered.

Poirot

Nature gives to the quarry of the viper a chance to identify his attacker. If every killer was as clearly marked, I would be without a job.

Poirot

Many odious women have devoted husbands. It is an enigma of nature.

Hercule Poirot

Films are very boring, Hastings, but the actors who are paid to deceive us? Now they are interesting, eh?

Poirot

This is not like the grey cells, Hastings! I have given them every chance. They have been cosseted, I have slept to allow them to do their work, I have eaten fish for breakfast. Result: Nothing!

Poirot

These little curious things. I like to see them appear. They point the way.

Poirot

[After having to see 5,000 photographs of Australia] The man who invented the camera has a lot to answer for, mon ami.

Poirot

To all of us, mademoiselle, there comes a time when death seems preferable to life. But the grief, it passes.

Poirot

It is a point of principle that I always keep my [bank] balance at four hundred and forty-four pounds, four shillings and four pence.

Poirot

Well, Hastings, while the Chief Inspector is frying his important fish, let us see what we can catch, eh?

Poirot

The Americans always put the month before the date, Hastings. They are very backwards people.