Quotes About Sleuth

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Alfie had been a private investigator

Lieutenant D'Agosta

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.

The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.

Hercule Poirot's methods are his own. Order and method, and 'the little gray cells'.

What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out.

It has just happened that I have found myself in the vicinity of murder rather more often than would seem normal.

Where there is murder, anything can happen.

I think each one of us in his secret heart fancies himself as Sherlock Holmes.

Why, he's Hercule Poirot! You know who I mean—the private detective. They say he's done the most wonderful things—just like detectives do in books.

Mas não tão inteligente quanto Hercule Poirot!

Yes, it is as you say. You now behold a detective- a great detective, I may say- in the act of detecting!

M. Poirot, almost certainly the criminal; the only man on board who could create a psychological moment.

We're both very crime-minded. Read a lot about it.

Poirot. "You find out

A good way behind came Hercule Poirot. He trod softly like a cat.

Agatha Christie

Murder, do you mean?" Miss Marple looked shocked. "I don't know why you should assume that I think of murder all the time." "Nonsense, Jane. Why don't you come out boldly and call yourself a criminologist and have done with it?

I wonder," I said. "I think each one of us in his secret heart fancies himself as Sherlock Holmes.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie