Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

by Agatha Christie

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddleheaded, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.”

Ah, doctors nowadays, they have you out of hospital before you can hardly stand on your feet.

Let us reflect upon the household cat. For many long, weary hours, he watches the mouse hole, he makes no movement, he betrays no energy, but—he does not go away.”

“A good deal of mutton dressed as lamb round here.