“One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”

“In the midst of life, we are in death.”

“Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?”

“That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!""M. Poirot are you quite mad?""No, I am extremely sane.”

“People will quite often do anything for money. - Jane Marple”

“It was not until I was over twenty that I realised that my home standard had been unusually high and that actually I was quite as quick or quicker than the average. Inarticulate I shall always be. It is probably one of the causes that have made made me a writer.”

“Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten.”