1.“Our hobbies and recreations can be summed up in the one word: ‘gossip’."
2.“It is completely unimportant. That’s why it’s so interesting.”
3.“I felt he were looking at the case from some peculiar angle of his own, and what he saw I could not tell.”
4.“Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it…Messieurs et mesdames, I tell you, I mean to know. And I shall know – in spite of you all.”
5.“Everyone had a hand in the elucidation of the mystery. It was rather like a jig-saw puzzle to which everyone contributed their own little piece of knowledge or discovery. But their task ended there. To Poirot alone belongs the renown of fitting thos
6.“My friend Hastings, he of whom I told you, used to say of me that I was a human oyster. But he was unjust. Of facts, I keep nothing to myself. But to everyone his own interpretations of them.”
7.But you can figure to yourself that a man may work towards a certain object, may labour and toil to attain a certain kind of leisure and occupation, and then find that, after all, he yearns for the old busy days, and the old occupations that he thought
8.“One must always proceed with method. I made an error in judgment in asking you that question. To each man his own knowledge."
9.“Everyone had a hand in the elucidation of the mystery. It was rather like a jig-saw puzzle to which everyone contributed their own little piece of knowledge or discovery."
10."Perhaps it never will be – and if so he will go to his grave honored and respected by everyone. But let us suppose that something occurs.”
