Hercule Poirot's best lines (from Agatha Christie's novels)
The top 3 according to 62 votes from people: Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. · I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself. · I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.. (Updated Apr 27, 2021.)
The little grey cells, order and method, and "I permitted you to deceive yourself": the most quoted lines of Hercule Poirot as Agatha Christie wrote them, from Styles to Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile.
Top 13
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1
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920).
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2
I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920).
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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928).
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Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920).
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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will… your soul is revealed by your actions.
The ABC Murders (1936).
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"This affair must all be unravelled from within." He tapped his forehead. "These little grey cells."
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920).
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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory — let the theory go.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920).
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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926).
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9
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934).
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It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934).
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11
There is no such thing as muddle — obscurity, yes — but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain.
Death in the Clouds (1935).
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12
If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it — none whatever.
Death in the Clouds (1935).
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Method and order, they are everything.
Death on the Nile (1937).
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