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“Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this â€� â€� he tapped his egg-shaped head â€� “this, that functions!”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Men have the best of this world. I hope that it will not always be so.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Men—â€� said Miss Williams, and stopped.
As a rich property owner says ‘Bolsheviks’—as an earnest Communist says ‘Capitalists!’—as a good housewife says ‘Blackbeetles’—so did Miss Williams say ‘Men!”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“What do most people mean when they say that? So young. Something innocent, something appealing, something helpless. But youth is not that! Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful—yes, and cruel! And one thing more—youth is vulnerable.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“One must have the courage to face reality. Without that courage, life is meaningless. The people who do us most harm are the people who shield us from reality.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“If you've lost, you've lost.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“I should hope, Mr. Poirot, that whatever our feelings, we can keep them in decent control. And we can certainly control our actions.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“With women, love always comes first.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“What do most people mean when they say that ? So young. Something innocent, something appealing, something helpless. But youth is not that ! Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful-yes, and cruel ! And one thing more-youth is vulnerable.' Hercule Poirot”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young?”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. . . . We've only one life to live.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“It’s no use resenting a thing that you’ve no power to stop.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“A woman should have a certain respect for herself and not submit to humiliation”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“The two words expressed volumes.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“The accepted version of certain facts is not necessarily the true one.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Everything's the matter.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty,â€� remarked Hercule Poirot.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“An artist! An excuse for every kind of loose living, for drunkenness, for brawling, for infidelity.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“The people who do us most harm are the people who shield us from reality.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Many children, most children, I should say, suffer from over-attention on the part of their parents. There is too much love, too much watching over the child.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, Mr. Poirot, that there is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless—so sure. So generous and so demanding.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs