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TRIVIA
QUOTATIONS
"People
like it, but who can say why?"
Agatha Christie
asked why The Mousetrap had been so successful In a
TV interview.
"I much disliked his
first suggestion, which was to take about twenty years off Poirot's age,
call him Beau Poirot and have lots of girls in love with him."
Agatha Christie
on a discussion with a playwright on the stageadaption of
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
(Quotation taken from Anne Hart's: The Life and Times of Hercule
Poirot, p. 139).
"An archaeologist is
the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more
interested he is in her."
Agatha Christie
News report, March 9th 1954.
Christie later denied this remark.
"What
an extraordinarily rum little beggar."
Death in the Clouds
Norman Gale about Hercule Poirot.
"I
am the best!"
Five Little Pigs
Hercule Poirot to Carla Lemarchant.
"I
am Hercule Poirot and I know."
Death in the Clouds
Hercule Poirot to Élise Grandier, Madame Giselle's maid.
"Mon
cher, practically speaking, I know everything!"
Death in the Clouds
Hercule Poirot to Norman Gale, when asking him to become
a blackmailer and reassuring him that the "victim" will not
contact the police
."Once
I was definitely on the firm ground, my brain began to work once more
with its normal brilliance."
Death in the Clouds
Hercule Poirot talking about how much easier it was to
think when he had left the airplane.
Compiled by Ragnar
Jónasson.
October 2000
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