Orient Express Quotes

“The great trains are going out all over Europe, one by one, but still, three times a week, the Orient Express thunders superbly over the 1,400 miles of glittering steel track between Istanbul and Paris.

Under the arc-lights, the long-chassied German locomotive panted quietly with the labored breath of a dragon dying of asthma. Each heavy breath seemed certain to be the last. Then came another.”
― Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love

“Le train de nuit, c'est toujours une aventure. On s'imagine dans l'Orient Express, le mystère plane ; on entend passer les voyageurs. On imagine des histoires, des frôlements sensuels. On ne dort que d'un oeil, blottis l'un contre l'autre. On se chuchote des choses que l'on ne dirait pas en plein jour. Puis on s'endort avec le balancement du train, tadam tadam, tadam tadam, tadam tadam.”
― Mirelle Hdb

“I shall break my journey home at Istanbul and spend a few days exploring the city. All my life I have wanted to see Santa Sofia. And then, I shall treat myself to a sleeping car on the Orient Express. After all, at my age I deserve these little luxuries"... John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. In Michael Bakewell's full cast BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia.”
― Agatha Christie