Poirot (TV Series)
Peril at End House (1990)
David Suchet: Hercule Poirot
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Quotes
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Hercule Poirot : I cannot eat these eggs. They are of totally different sizes.
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Hercule Poirot : You do know who I am?
Nick Buckley : No. I don't.
Hercule Poirot : I forget; you are but a child. Alors, my friend here, Captain Hastings, he will tell it to you.
Captain Hastings : Well, um, Monsieur Poirot is a detective.
Nick Buckley : Oh.
Captain Hastings : [Poirot just looks at Hastings] Um, uh, a great detective.
Hercule Poirot : My friend, is that all you can find to say? Mais dis donc, say then to Mademoiselle that I am the detective unique, unsurpassed, the greatest that ever lived.
Captain Hastings : Well, doesn't seem much point now; you've told her yourself.
Hercule Poirot : Ah yes, but it is more agreeable to preserve the modesty.
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Hercule Poirot : Ah, c'est magnifique. Just the place for a restful vacation. The food will be inedible.
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Captain Hastings : Makes you proud to be an Englishman, though... Oh, I'm sorry.
Hercule Poirot : Do not be sorry, Hastings. It is not tragedy for me that I was born on the wrong side of the channel.
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Hercule Poirot : You know, Hastings. You have the most extraordinary effect on me.
Captain Hastings : Really?
Hercule Poirot : Yes. You have so strongly the flair in the wrong direction that I am almost tempted to doubt the commander.
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[first lines]
Captain Hastings : Looks just like a patchwork quilt, doesn't it?
Hercule Poirot : [eyes closed tight, clutching armrest] No!
Captain Hastings : Well, it does to me. Does to everybody else.
Hercule Poirot : Not to Poirot!
Captain Hastings : Oh, I suppose you don't think that looks like a great mass of cotton wool.
Hercule Poirot : No!
Captain Hastings : I don't think you've got *any* imagination at all, Poirot.
Hercule Poirot : [opens his eyes] That is true, mon ami. But fortunately you have enough for both of us; it is extremely valuable to me.
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[last lines]
Hercule Poirot : It is satisfying, is it not, Chief Inspector, in a case, when at last one knows everything.
Chief Inspector Japp : I thought you knew everything anyway, Poirot.
Hercule Poirot : Well...
[Miss Lemon and Hastings arrive carrying ice cream cones]
Hercule Poirot : Ah.
Miss Lemon : There's one for you, Chief Inspector.
Chief Inspector Japp : Ah, thank you.
Miss Lemon : None for Mister Poirot because I read an article on the train how ice cream was extremely bad for the little grey cells.
Captain Hastings : And two for me because mine are dead already.
[Japp laughs]
Hercule Poirot : They are very amusing, are they not, Chief Inspector? The sea air obviously agrees with them. I think perhaps, when I return to London, I shall leave them here.
[Japp laughs, and Hastings hands one of his cones to Poirot]
Hercule Poirot : Thank you. Santé!
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Hercule Poirot : May I be impertinent, Madame?
Frederica Rice : Is there such a thing these days?
Hercule Poirot : [he smiles] You care for Monsieur Lazarus?
Frederica Rice : He's rich.
Hercule Poirot : Oo-la-la! That is an ugly thing to say.
Frederica Rice : [smiling] Better to say it myself than have you say it for me.
Hercule Poirot : You are very intelligent, madame.
Frederica Rice : You'll be giving me a diploma next!
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Captain Hastings : I don't think you've got any imagination at all, Poirot.
Hercule Poirot : That is true, mon ami. But fortunately, you have enough for both of us. It is extremely valuable to me.
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Hercule Poirot : [after an Australian emigre has cornered Poirot into looking ay 500 pictures of his homeland] The man who invented the camera has a lot to answer for!
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Hercule Poirot : I am the dog who stays on a scent, Commander, and does not leave it.
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Hercule Poirot : And the miserable one that I am, I saw nothing.