Death On The Nile Quotes
"The rich beautiful society bride on her honeymoon."
"It really seems a little too much for one person. Money, good looks, marvelous figure and -"
"I mean that all is not the gold that glitters."
"I'm just a jealous cat - but that's what I feel like."
"I saw, Mademoiselle, dark lines below a woman's eyes."
"Love is not everything, Mademoiselle. It is only when we are young that we think it is."
"One cannot go back over the past. One must deal with things as they are."
"You can suffer so much when you are young and sensitive. I think she is suffering."
"A great force of emotion is always frightening."
"Madame - that category would not leave many people outside it."
"Mothers, Madame, are particularly ruthless when their children are in danger."
"Motives for murder are sometimes very trivial, Madame."
"Life and death are the affair of the good God."
"It's quite entertaining. I'm trying to imagine motives for crime suitable for everyone in the hotel."
"I'd rather see a well-fed worker than any so-called work of art. What matters is the future - not the past."
"She's never worked or lifted a finger. She's just battened on other people. She's a parasite - and a damned unpleasant parasite."
"I am a detective," said Hercule Poirot with the modest air of one who says "I am a King."
"You've got something heaps of people would envy you."
"I think she's marvellous. She looks so lovely - so composed and calm - as though nothing could ever touch her, and yet - and yet somehow she's always ready to be funny about things too."
"I'm sorry to have to ask you to stay with me, Miss Bowers. I intended you to go and Cornelia to stay, but girls are so selfish."
"Why - I don't understand - potatoes, beetroots - what does it mean, Simon?"
"Names should be read carefully. It is inexcusable to be careless in these matters."
"Never mind, darling; let's go and look at that big ivory crocodile you liked."
"They don't care any more. They've got beyond me. I can't reach them... They don't mind if I'm here or not... I can't - I can't hurt them any more."
"You're the nicest person on the boat. And mind you remember it."
"I believe it's your digestion. I've got a special kind of pepsin that Cousin Marie tried once. Would you like to try it?"
"You're a happy sort of person, aren't you? God, I'd like to be you."
"I didn't do it. Oh, please believe me. Everyone will think I did it - but I didn't - I didn't. It's - it's awful."
"Death's horrible - horrible! I - I hate the thought of it."
"It is not pleasant to think, is it, that now, at this very moment, someone is rejoicing at the successful carrying out of his or her plan."
"I - I wanted her dead - and she is dead... And, what is worse... she died - just like I said."
"Yes, Mademoiselle. She was shot through the head."
"It's a suggestion. After all, the pistol wasn't anywhere in the cabin. First thing I looked for."
"If it is not in Madame Doyle's cabin, there is, logically, only one other place where it could be."
"It's pretty awful when people hate you without even knowing you."
"I never read anything. I sign where I am told to sign."
"And therefore the thief shot her? But she was shot whilst she slept."
"We must work with great care. It is very delicate, our position, at the moment."
"That's her story, and she's going to stick to it! It may be true. I don't know. But - Rosalie Otterbourne? I hadn't expected that."
"Nom d'un nom d'un nom! It does not make sense."
"The murderer wrapped it round the pistol to deaden the noise of the shot."
"But it does not make sense," he cried. "Nom d'un nom d'un nom! It does not make sense."
"It is very just, very exact, what you have written there."
"Me, I pose to myself one question: 'Why was the pistol thrown overboard?'"
"A man's handkerchief - but not a gentleman's handkerchief. Ce cher Woolworth, I imagine. Threepence at most."
"The sort of handkerchief a man like Fleetwood would own."
"Ah, yes. Quite a jeune fille colour, is it not?"
"When the sun shines you cannot see the moon, but when the sun is gone - ah, when the sun is gone."
"I utter the imbecilities," he said. "Take no notice."
"I was saying, Mademoiselle, that when the sun has gone down, we shall see the moon. That is so, is it not?"
"La politesse, it is not necessary between friends."
"Don't be sorry for me. Don't be kind. It's easier if you're not."
"What is the truth? You seem to know it better than I do."
"You're infuriating!" She stamped an angry foot. "You get an idea into your head, and you go on and on and on about it."
"And when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world."
"She was as beautiful - just as a woman - as anything in Greek Art."
"The only thing that interests me is the truth."
"The law will demand the most searching investigation into the condition of Madame Doyle's estate."
"It hung on a razor edge. It needed boldness."
"This is a crime that needed audacity, swift and faultless execution, courage, indifference to danger, and a resourceful, calculating brain."
"It's been a good game, but it's over at last. There's nothing for it now, I suppose, but to take my medicine."
"All the same, I can't really see that you had much proof. You were quite right, of course, but if we'd bluffed you out -"
"It's so dreadfully easy - killing people. And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter!"
"Do you remember when I said I must follow my star? You said it might be a false star. And I said, 'That very bad star, that star fall down.'"
"It's all right, Simon. A fool's game, and we've lost. That's all."