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Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off because they were not his own eyebrows, but false on...more

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Don’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.

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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

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That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

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Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.

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A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.

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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

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The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald—or Arthur—or whatever his name was—had only lived." And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a...more

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I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

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Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's ...more

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No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?--Poi...more

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You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy.'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance.'You hav...more

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Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering ...more

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Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas...more

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Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's d...more