Poirot

1989

Hercule Poirot: Chief Inspector Japp, I must ask you to trust me as you have never trusted me before. Chief Inspector Japp: Here we go.

Chief Inspector Japp: (to Poirot) I don't know why I bother sometimes. I may as well stay at home and do my gardening. Who do you want me to arrest now?

Hercule Poirot: Firstly, I am not a 'bloody little Frog!' I am a bloody little Belgian!

Hercule Poirot: You think it is wrong, Hastings, to enjoy the compliments, or the 'buttering,' as you say? Captain Hastings: No, but do you have to show it quite so much? It's not English. Hercule Poirot: Perhaps it is Belgian. And why should I be the hypocrite, to blush when I am praised, and to say like you, "It is nothing." Hmph! I have the order, the method, and the psychology. There, I admit it. I am the best. I am Hercule Poirot.

Hercule Poirot: I am learning, Hastings. It is more English, yes, the humbleness? So, I am learning. I shall be the most humble person in the world. No one will match Hercule Poirot for his humbility.

Hercule Poirot: One can always tell when the summer, it is arrived. Captain Hastings: It's in the air, eh? Hercule Poirot: No, Hastings, it is in the speed of your driving!

Captain Hastings: (referring to marriage) You ever thought about it? Hercule Poirot: In my experience, I know of five cases of wives being murdered by their devoted husbands. Captain Hastings: Oh? Hercule Poirot: And twenty-two husbands being murdered by their devoted wives. So thank you, no. Marriage, it is not for me.

Countess Vera Rossakoff: And what of the perfect crime? Hercule Poirot: It is an illusion, Countess.

Countess Vera Rossakoff: So, you are saying the police cannot solve it because they are too English. Hercule Poirot: Or because the culprit is not English enough.

Captain Hastings: Well, I hadn't thought of that. Hercule Poirot: If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

Captain Hastings: (referring to Poirot) You know what he's like when he hasn't had a case for a few weeks. I thought that a nice afternoon at the Garden Fete might cheer him up a bit. Chief Inspector Japp: Hmmm, about the only thing that's going to cheer him up is the discovery of a body in the Lucky Dip.

Hercule Poirot: (to Japp, referring to Hastings' new camera) The new toy. I give it two, perhaps three weeks.

Hercule Poirot: (reading a brochure for a fitness program) 'Use your vigor to keep your figure.' Absurd! There is nothing wrong with the body of Poirot. He is in the peak of condition!

Hercule Poirot: (after being stung by a wasp) The open air, it should be closed during the summer! Captain Hastings, he wonders why I have a hatred for these crawling, buzzing things. And the reason is they're always trying to kill me!

Claude Langton: But I haven't heard anything about a murder. Hercule Poirot: No, you would not have heard of it. Because, as yet, it has not taken place. You see, if one can investigate a murder before it happens, then one might even, well, a little idea... prevent it?

Hercule Poirot: Certainment, this is the most difficult moment of my career. To solve the crime... that does not exist.

Hercule Poirot: I see you have had some tea, n'est ce pas? You remember the Garden Fete? When I look into the future? You will permit if we do the same, please? Turn it around... no, no, no, no, no! Because this time, it is different. This time we shall look backward, yes? Into the past. Because the past, it is as clear as crystal, n'est ce pas? As clear as the crystals of cyanide poison that are in this cup. Oh, no, no, no, m'sieu, this does not shock you. For it is you who put them there!

Colonel Curtiss: (commenting on Poirot's presence at a murder scene) I think it's a godsend. I mean, you're a detective. Hercule Poirot: I am THE detective, Colonel Curtiss.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

John Harrison: (seeing Poirot) Well, I'll be jiggered! Molly Deane: What is it? John Harrison: I'd know that egghead anywhere.

Alistair Blunt: You're an odd man, Poirot. Hercule Poirot: Oh, yes I am. Very odd.

Hercule Poirot: (referring to Hastings' comment about him "making a mountain out of a molehill") I am not making hills out of the molemounds!

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