Poirot's Early Cases Quotes

“It is the brain, the little grey cells” — he topped his forehead — “on which one must rely. The senses mislead.”
― Agatha Christie, The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot

“Women are like that nowadays, never happy unless they're dancing or gambling.”
― Agatha Christie, Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries

“Wherever there is human nature, there is drama. But — it is not always just where you think it is. Remember that.”
― Agatha Christie, Poirot's Early Cases

“You'd have been a holy terror if you'd taken to crime.”
― Agatha Christie, Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries

“M. Poirot,’ she said somewhat breathlessly, ‘Can I speak to you alone?’ ‘Milady, Captain Hastings is as my other self. You can speak before him as though he were a thing of no account, not there at all. Be seated, I pray you.”
― Agatha Christie, Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries

“I never try to pretend I'm a day less than 43" she continued with slightly mendacious candor.”
― Agatha Christie, Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries