“One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself.”

“Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.”

“What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.”

“Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.”

“Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage.""To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does.""Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.”

“Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes and inclinations is the most important consideration.”

“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”