Hercule Poirot's Christmas

M. Poirot, I can’t believe it!”
“Madame, you can and you do believe it!”

conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth!”

they were born the wrong side of the blanket.

Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?’ The words of Lady Macbeth.

Queer sort of chap

you dam the stream of natural behaviour, mon ami, sooner or later the dam bursts and a cataclysm occurs!”

Colonel Johnson, Chief Constable of Middleshire, might be of the opinion that nothing could beat a wood fire, but Hercule Poirot was of the opinion that central heating could and did every time!

an open-handed gentleman

In Spain we have a proverb. It is like this:
“Take what you like and pay for it, says God.

Pilar—remember—nothing is so boring as devotion.”