“Why didn't they ask the Evans?”

“It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”

“As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?'Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.”

“Love can be a very frightening thing.’ ‘That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

“Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!”

“Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?""Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot.”

“She's a gipsy really. That's why she can't stay in houses. She wanders away and comes back again.”