Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly Quotes

“Have you ever reflected, Madame, on the enormous part that Hearsay plays in life. “Mr. A said,” “Mrs. B. told us.” “Miss C. explained why –” and so on. And if the known facts seem to fit with what we have been told, then we never question them. There are so many things that do not concern us, and so we do not bother to uncover the actual facts.”
― Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

“Ah, yes,’ said Poirot. He was reflecting, and not for the first time, that seen from the back, shorts were becoming to very few of the female sex. He shut his eyes in pain.”
― Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

“As Hercule Poirot had discovered by experience, there were many English people who considered that what one said to foreigners didn’t count!”
― Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly