Hercule Poirot's Silent Night Quotes

“Good sense is not the driving force in the lives of most people.”
― Sophie Hannah, Hercule Poirot's Silent Night

“Life is never easy,” I told him. “There are different kinds of difficult, and one must choose between them.“
“Some lives are considerably easier than others, inspector.“
“Perhaps. Such things are never discernible from the outside, however. Only the one living the life can judge.”
― Sophie Hannah (author), Hercule Poirot's Silent Night

“no house is anything more, really, than a collection of bricks held together by . . . lime putty, or whatever it is. The rest is people: their feelings and their memories.”
― Sophie Hannah, Hercule Poirot's Silent Night

“Contrary to what you might imagine, no energy is conserved if you take the 'Now that it's there' approach. There is little that taxes the brain more than forcing it to deviate from its customary ways of thinking and imagining.”
― Sophie Hannah, Hercule Poirot's Silent Night

“Silent night,' Poirot murmured, moving closer to Arnold Laurier's desk. 'Murderous night. All is lies. All is...' 'Blight?”
― Sophie Hannah, Hercule Poirot's Silent Night