"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" Quotes

Poirot looked searchingly at me. He was excited - profoundly excited.

He had become so completely absorbed in himself, and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not only his landlady, but any human being.

Why, for instance, does he take the trouble to spend his time and money in winding up the watch when he has no intention of taking it out of his pocket?

It sounds impossible, but it's fact. I had my last glimpse of the great detective just as I completed these memoirs.

A woman, well stricken in years, was putting a flower into the button-hole of a littie girl's coat. I remarked on this afterwards.

But this is all guesswork. We know nothing until we know why and how the 'receiving set' was tampered with.

Nothing escapes him. I have heard him dismiss a servant at a glance, and at his first word to her.

I was very much interested by what the young detective had just said. He certainly seemed to be getting on.

You are like everyone else. They deceive themselves, and believe everything strangers in authority tell them.

Everyone must feel that the fact that Mr. Inglethorp's large fortune, tied up until he was fifty, and disposing so shortly before his death of so much of it, to her, looks black against her.