The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Quotes

“A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)”
― Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

“You arouse my gastronomical juices, madame.”
― Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

“Ah," said Mr Jesmond, "but Christmas in England is a great institution and I assure you at Kings Lacey you would see it at its best. It's a wonderful old house, you know. Why, one wing of it dates from the fourteenth century."

Again Poirot shivered. The thought of a fourteenth-century English manor house filled him with apprehension. He had suffered too often in the historic country houses of England. He looked round appreciatively at his comfortable modern flat with its radiators and the latest patent devices for excluding any kind of draught.

"In the winter," he said firmly, "I do not leave London.”
― Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

“Me—I am not an Englishman,” said Hercule Poirot. “In my country, Christmas, it is for the children. The New Year, that is what we celebrate.”
― Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

“Ça, c’est tout a fait naturelle,” said Poirot. “It is the fashion of the moment. They grow out of it.”
― Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding