Poirot: I am interested in everything!
Colonel Carbury: Yes. That’s the only way to react to life.
‘You do see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’
[incipit]
‘In America,’ he [Mr Cope] said, ‘we’re great believers in absolute freedom.’
Dr. Gerard rose also. He was unimpressed by the remark. He had heard it made before by people of many different nationalities. The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one’s own particular race is fairly widespread.
Colonel Carbury: Tell me, d’you ever find your own special job has a way of following you around?
Poirot: Pardon?
Colonel Carbury: Well – to put it plainly – do you come to places expecting a holiday from crime – and find instead bodies cropping up?
Poirot: It has happened, yes; more than once.
‘And […] after you’ve sifted the evidence and done some reasoning and paddled in psychology – hey, presto! – you think you can produce the rabbit out of the hat?’
‘I should be extremely surprised if I could not do so,’ said Poirot calmly.
I always say a cup of tea makes all the difference.
Miss Pierce
‘You are […] a very well-known detective?’
‘The best detective in the world,’ said Poirot, stating it as a simple truth, no more, no less.
Appointment with Death, di Agatha Christie
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