One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Quotes
"He complained of the bacon, wondered why the coffee had to have the appearance of liquid mud, and remarked that breakfast cereals were each one worse than the last."
"She urged her brother on to explain exactly why the Government's present policy was inconclusive, idiotic, imbecile and frankly suicidal!"
"These girls," he said, "are all the same! Unreliable, self-centered - not to be depended on in any way."
"After all, Henry, girls do fall in love. It can't be helped."
"His good temper restored. He said: 'I'll be up for a sandwich at half past one as usual.'"
"The door closed behind him with the quiet remorselessness of unalterable doom."
"In verity, there are some Englishmen who are altogether so unpleasing and ridiculous that they should have been put out of their misery at birth."
"There are certain humiliating moments in the lives of the greatest of men. It has been said that no man is a hero to his valet."
"His morale was down to zero. He was just that ordinary, that craven figure, a man afraid of the dentist's chair."
"Alistair Blunt! Those were the names that thrilled nowadays."
"No, my friend, I am not drunk. It is that I have been to the dentist and I need not go again for six months. It is a beautiful thought."
"No stranger did, sir. That Miss Nevill's young man came round - and in a bad state not to find her here."
"I'm a most awful coward about going to the dentist. And I simply hate that beastly drill thing they run into you."
"Sleuths on the doorstep rather suggest bombs in the attic, don't they?"
"Liars are neither so circumstantial nor so inconsequential."
"It mayn't be important in the least - but I thought you ought to know."
"All right! You win! I was scared stiff."
"You see, I'm being frank with you, M. Poirot. That's the kind of people we are."
"How can I make you understand? Everything I've been brought up to believe in, Howard abominates and wants to do away with."
"Their old men have dreams - only dreams, you see."
"Don't sidetrack me. I was saying that if - only if, mind you - that blasted woman committed suicide, if she'd drowned herself, for instance, the body would have come ashore by now."
"It's always the same thing - long-haired, woolly idealists - without one practical bit of knowledge in their heads."
"There's something wrong about him. I really don't. There is something wrong about him. I still feel that he hasn't really any proper moral sense."
"He's certainly the kind of young man I disapprove of! Spends his time tub-thumping and talking hot air, instead of doing a decent job of work!"
"Chiefly the St. Edward's Hospital, the Cancer Hospital, and the Royal Institute for the Blind."
"You're a spy, that's what you are! A miserable, low, snooping spy, nosing round and making trouble!"
"I loathe the sight of you - you bloody little bourgeois detective!"
"The pleasure of the chase must be extended as long as possible..."
"What's needed is a new heaven and a new earth! And you sit there eating kidneys!"
"Sometimes, I do not like the things I have to do."
"When you have only a small place you've got to make the most of it. You can't afford to make mistakes in the planning."
"But one does not like things that one cannot explain."
"You see, Miss Sainsbury Seale had come to King Leopold Mansions on the evening of that same day - the day of Mr. Morley's murder. In the morning the shoes were new shoes - in the evening they were worn shoes. One does not wear out a pair of shoes in a day, you comprehend."
"Why had the face been wantonly, deliberately smashed and rendered unrecognizable?"
"It is necessary. I have to take you over the steps that led me at last to the truth."
"Expense is no object - human life is no object."
"And once I realized it I had my first vague glimmering of the truth."
"There existed private reasons for killing Morley - Frank Carter's, for instance."
"We are democratic in England - truly democratic. We can grumble and say what we think and laugh at our politicians. We're free."
"Because I'm an honest man. And because I've got common sense - and no particular axe of my own to grind."
"You have said that Mabelle Sainsbury Seale was a foolish human being and Amberiotis an evil one, and Frank Carter a wastrel, and Morley - Morley was only a dentist and there are other dentists. That is where you and I, Mr. Blunt, do not see alike. For to me the lives of those four people were just as important as your life."