Character: Hercule Poirot

Ah, my friend, you can live in a big house and not have comfort.

There is nothing random in the world.

I don't think you've ever in your entire life cared about how others felt. Had it been otherwise, you might have been happier.

- Ugh ... You could say that. But you cannot change human nature by this. Murder is a tragedy. And the thirst for tragedy is inherent in people.

- Yes, but only after talking with him, not before.

What do people mean when they say this? So young... Something innocent, touching, defenseless. But youth is not like that! It's different. Youth is rude, strong and cruel. Yes, cruel! And she's vulnerable.

- Honesty often only adds pain and sadness.

Truth tends to come out on its own. Even after years.

Some of us, mon cher, find beauty in weird places.

No, I want the truth, not a lie, even if it is very plausible.

- How would I put it more clearly... It's a typical English way of looking at things. "Do not shoot at a sitting bird" - do you understand the meaning of such an expression?
- Yes, as you said, a typical English point of view. But I think I understood. And in the Central Criminal Court, and on the Eton Sports Ground, and in the hunting grounds, it is important for the Englishman that the victim has his chance.

Children are sometimes very good at people.

Here, after all, you know, it is not the muscles that are important. I don’t have to bend over and measure footprints, collect cigarette butts and study crumpled blades of grass. It is enough to sit in a chair and think. It is here, ”he tapped his finger on his head, which was elongated in the shape of an egg,“ that works!

Murder cannot be viewed as an isolated fact. In nine cases out of ten, the reason for the murder lies in the character of the victim, in his personality. A person becomes a victim of murder because of who he is.