One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #23)

by Agatha Christie

“Liars,” he said, “are neither so circumstantial nor so inconsequential.”

“I am very odd. That is to say, I am methodical, orderly and logical—and I do not like distorting facts to support a theory—that, I find—is unusual!”

“The world is yours. The New Heaven and the New Earth. In your new world, my children, let there be freedom and let there be pity … That is all I ask.”

“Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.”