“But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn."She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed."Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he said. It was I who taught your Aunt Maureen to make an omelette.”
“You have to break an omelette to make eggs.”
“Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.”
“Take care. It is so easy to break eggs without making omelettes.”
“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?”
“Plus, if I can wax philosophical for a paragraph, there's an even more fundamental principle involved here, and it apples to everything from what you decide to do for a living, to making an omelette, which is that there is nothing so consistently dangerous, not to mention more likely to mess with your head and leave you muttering into your beer, than playing it safe.”