Quotes About Mystery

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

How little you might know of a person after living in the same house with them!

the truth is never horrible, only interesting.

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 mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers.

My friend, in working upon a case, one does not take into account only the things that are "mentioned". There is no reason to mention many things which may be important. Equally, there is often an excellent reason for not mentioning them.

You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes- two people. One is le bon Dieu - and the other is Hercule Poirot

It is completely unimportant," said Poirot. "That is why it is so interesting," he added softly.

The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.

In fact-Dr. Sheppard!

No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.

One cannot be interested in crime without being interested in psychology. It is not the mere act of killing, it is what lies behind it that appeals to the expert.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

I, Hercule Poirot, am not amused.

Murder, I have often noticed, is a great matchmaker.

Why didn't they ask the Evans?

You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were it not for constitutional indolence?

Really, my friend! But I will not sit back and say 'le bon Dieu has arranged everything, I will not interfere.' Because I am convinced that le bon Dieu created Hercule Poirot for the express purpose of interfering. It is my métier.

Because, you see, if the man were an invention—a fabrication—how much easier to make him disappear!

They say all the world loves a lover—apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.

I will not look through keyholes," I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. "Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.

What alchemy there was in human beings.