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I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is t...more

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But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

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Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

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The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or...more

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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

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I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. ...more

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I loved her- I always loved her- no matter what she was-I wanted her safe- not shut up- a prisoner for life, eating her heart out. And we did keep her...more

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Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table

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There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hy...more

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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so d...more

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It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

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There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they ...more

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For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs t...more