Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, a… - Agatha Christie

"قال جراهام بطريقة جافة:" لا يكون الناس الذين يتحدثون عن الانتحار هم الذين يقدمون عليه بالفعل، فهم يجذبون الأنظار ويبالغون، وبهذا يزيحون عن كاهلهم الكثير مما يؤلمهم وبالتالي تبتعد الفكرة عن رؤوسهم

"Mademoiselle," I said, "it is sometimes difficult for a dog to find a scent, but once he has found it, nothing on earth will make him leave it! That is if he is a good dog! And I, mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, am a very good dog."

"Take the Pyramids. Great blocks of useless masonry, put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic bloated king. Think of the sweated masses who toiled to build them and died doing it. It makes me sick to think of the suffering and torture they represent."

Mrs. Allerton said cheerfully: "You’d rather have no Pyramids, no Parthenon, no beautiful tombs or temples — just the solid satisfaction of knowing that people got three meals a day and died in their beds."

The young man directed his scowl in her direction. "I think human beings matter more than stones."