No no no, I am not some French gent, I am some *Belgian* gent.
1989
The thing, Hastings? You think Poirot concerns himself with mere thingness?
1989
Hastings, the train has one advantage over the car. It does not often run out of coal.
1989
Cricket. The English enigma. I know not of any other game where even the players are unsure of the rules.
1989
Birds do not run, Hastings.
1989
(Doorman:) Captain Hastings has gone off shooting things, and the secretary has gone off to visit her sister in Folkestone.
1989
But I can assure you, behind my madness is, as you English say... method.
1989
I will take a promenade in the garden before turning in. It will clear my brain.
1989
Films are very boring, Hastings, but the actors who are paid to deceive us, now, they are interesting, hein.
1989
(Newsreader:) British pies are famous the world over, and last year Farley's Foods produced five million of 'em.
1990
I cannot eat these eggs. They are of totally different sizes.
1990
The criminals, they fear Hercule Poirot so much that they have repented of their naughty ways and have become citizens of the most upright.
1990
It is a point of principle that I always keep my balance at four hundred and forty-four pounds, four shillings and four pence.
1990
Look after the liver and life will take care of itself.
1990
I was talking to the parrot.
1990
No no no, mon ami. I am nothing. I have nothing. Poirot is finished.
1990
The American crime buster, hm?
1990
(Sir:) You don't seem to realize, Poirot, this is a national emergency. I do not intend to sleep until the Prime Minister is found!
1990
Marie Marvelle is the greatest film star Belgium has ever produced. (Hastings:) I should think she's the *only* film star Belgium's ever produced.
1990
It is believed that when this flower is open, it is a sign of a proplonged spell of fine weather. It is seldom seen open in this country.
1991
(Japp:) Well, at least she came quietly. There's a nice, tidy end to the whole business. (Poirot:) I do not think so, Chief Inspector.
1991
Hastings, it is twenty years ago that I came to this country in a boat across the channel. And still I am not recovered.
1991
(Paperman:) She just kept going on and on until she nearly missed her train.
1991
The open air, it should be closed during the summer! Captain Hastings, he wonders why I have a hatred for these crawling, buzzing things. And the reason is they're always trying to kill me!
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1991
One hundred and twenty-five miles, Hastings, we come on a wild gooseberry hunt.
1991
One can always tell when the summer, it is arrived. ... Hastings, it is in the speed of your driving!
1991
I shall be the most humble person in the world. No one will match Hercule Poirot for his humbility
1991
I, Hercule Poirot, whose business it is to know everything.
1991
Look at this place: people dance, they laugh. But anywhere there may be evil beneath the mask.
1991
Chief Inspector Japp is truly most amusing, do you not think, Hastings? ... For a policeman.
1992
(Japp:) I don't suppose it means anything but an old woman who kept a tobacco and newspaper shop in Andover was battered to death last night.
1992
(from the book:) 'Mon ami,' said Poirot with dignity, 'when I commit a murder it will not be with the arrow poison of the South American Indians.'
1992
Mr. Blunt, you talk of the continued peace of the nation. Oh, yes, that is right, but Poirot is not concerned with nations. Poirot is always concerned with private individuals who have the right not to have taken from them their lives.
1993
(Newsreader:) No doubt there will be rivalry between Doctor Fosswell of the British Museum and Doctor Schneider of the Metropolitan Museum of New York, but keep it friendly, eh, chaps.
1993
(Miss Lemon:) A hole in one, Captain Hastings, a hole in one.
1993
The English they do not have a cuisine, my friend, they have only the food. ... And the day the English create their own wines is the day I return home to Belgium.
1993
What good are many friends, mon ami, when you have one bad enemy?
1993
(Japp:) Well, well, well. I managed to get here before you this time, Poirot. (Poirot:) No, no, not at all, Chief Inspector, I've just been upstairs interviewing the chef.
1993
I remember that it was not I who made the mistakes in that case; it was everyone else.
1993
(Auctioneer:) Ladies and gentlemen, lot 22. An Esker Brant wrought iron mirror and console table.
1993
It is no use! Not to take this case is for Poirot more hard work than to take it!
1995
Chief Inspector, you have been thinking again. I have warned you of this before.
1995
(Japp:) These psychologists, most of them are barmy themselves.
1996
You may keep your pipe but from this moment each time you light it you'll think of Hercule Poirot?
1996
In my book, as you say, monsieur, everyone is a suspect.
2000
Although to the casual observer, Kings Abbott is a friendly place, everything is not as it seems.
2000
Do not be anxious, madam. All will be arranged. You have my word.
2001
It is romantic, yes. It is peaceful. The sun shines, the sea it is blue.
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2001
Mr. Coleman, I myself have aged ten years since entering this auto mobile.
2003
Human nature has an infinite capacity to surprise.
2003
I am, as you say, bored to the tears.
2004
Do not open your heart to evil, mademoiselle. If you do there will be no turning back.
2004
Go, my child. Your place is with the living. I will remain here with the dead.
2005
(Lady:) I was in bed all night. If you seek corroboration, interrogate my pillow.
2005
So, we have played, and Hercule Poirot, he has won.
2006
The journey of life... it can be hard for those of us who travel alone, Mademoiselle.
2006
If God should withhold his mercy from anyone on earth, Monsieur, it surely will be you.
2008
These are not artists or bohemians. No, very nice people live in Broadhinny. They tell to me so themselves.
2008
Hopes, dreams, fears, secrets. This place: so full of the promise of youth, the future of the nation. And yet, how lonely and silent are it's corridors at night. Lonely and silent as the chambers of the heart.
2008
The fact that I discovered nothing means there is a great deal being concealed.
2008
You see, mon ami, the voices of the little gray cells have begun to sing to Poirot.
2009
(Lieutenant:) This murder gets more complicated by the minute. (Poirot:) Mais oui. Which can only mean one thing, mon ami. The solution, it must be very simple.
2010
(Miss:) If anyone could have drunk the poison cocktail... golly, it could have been me! (Poirot:) And there is a possibility even more terrible, Mademoiselle... it could have been me.
2010
Old sins cast long shadows, Madame.
2010
(Mr:) Porot, we are in Yugoslavia. Hmmnn? This is not a good place to have a problem! This is the backside of Europe! This is the Wild West!
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