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“Hallo, darling. You’re looking very tragic. Is it a bill?”
I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling.
Hercule Poirot said: “I do not approve of murder.”
“Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, ‘I will feel so much and no more.’ Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable!”
“Whatever side one is on, one must face facts!
Poirot said: “That is the accepted idea, I know. You would be surprised how many people do the things that ‘are not done.’”
One must understand with the cells of one’s brain before one uses one’s eyes.”
Hercule Poirot said: “It goes deeper than that… There is, sometimes, a deep chasm between the past and the future. When one has walked in the valley of the shadow of death, and come out of it into the sunshine—then, mon cher, it is a new life that begins… The past will not serve….”
