Murder on the Orient Express Quotes
Wolfgang Bouc: Poirot?
Hercule Poirot: [distracted] oh, forgive me. My mind was temporarily elsewhere.
Wolfgang Bouc: It's a woman, isn't it?
Hercule Poirot: Regretably, yes. [sighs]
Hercule Poirot: We are such opposites, Vera and I. She's flamboyant and beautiful; I'm reserved and homely. She'a a thief; I'm a detective. [They laugh]
Hercule Poirot: The only thing we have in common is the refusal to let the other rule oor life... but I cannot stop her from ruling my thoughts.
Hercule Poirot: [distracted] oh, forgive me. My mind was temporarily elsewhere.
Wolfgang Bouc: It's a woman, isn't it?
Hercule Poirot: Regretably, yes. [sighs]
Hercule Poirot: We are such opposites, Vera and I. She's flamboyant and beautiful; I'm reserved and homely. She'a a thief; I'm a detective. [They laugh]
Hercule Poirot: The only thing we have in common is the refusal to let the other rule oor life... but I cannot stop her from ruling my thoughts.
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Colonel Arbuthnott: He was interested in the future of India. A bit impractical - he thought the British ought to move out!
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Countess Andrenyi: As is my custom on night trains, I took trional. [Poirot makes a noise and looks at the doctor]
Dr. Constantine: Diethylsulphone dimethyl methane. One dilutes the white crystals with water. It is a strong hypnotic.
Countess Andrenyi: Ha, ha! He makes it sound like a poison!
Dr. Constantine: As with most sleeping drugs, if taken in sufficient quantities it IS a poison.
Count Andrenyi: [jumping up] You are not - -!
Hercule Poirot: Ah, you are not ACcused... you are EXcused! Thank you both for your help and cooperation.
Dr. Constantine: Diethylsulphone dimethyl methane. One dilutes the white crystals with water. It is a strong hypnotic.
Countess Andrenyi: Ha, ha! He makes it sound like a poison!
Dr. Constantine: As with most sleeping drugs, if taken in sufficient quantities it IS a poison.
Count Andrenyi: [jumping up] You are not - -!
Hercule Poirot: Ah, you are not ACcused... you are EXcused! Thank you both for your help and cooperation.
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Hercule Poirot: I am never in a hurry, and when the world slows down to my pace, I find it very agreeable.
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Hercule Poirot: Ladies and gentlemen, you are all aware that a repulsive murderer has himself been repulsively, and, perhaps deservedly, murdered.
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Mr. Samuel Ratchett: All 200,000... dollars! Tax free!
Hercule Poirot: Thank you Mr. Ratchett, but I've made up my mind.
Mr. Samuel Ratchett: That's a lot of money to turn down.
Hercule Poirot: I've been very fortunate in my career, Mr. Ratchett, as you have been in yours. I've managed to pay for my needs and my caprices, and now I only take on cases that appeal to me.
Mr. Samuel Ratchett: Really! And what's wrong with this one?
Hercule Poirot: May I speak personally?
Mr. Samuel Ratchett: [With a sweep of his hand] Sure!
Hercule Poirot: I find you intolerable. [He gets up slowly and leaves the table]
Hercule Poirot: Good-bye.
Hercule Poirot: Thank you Mr. Ratchett, but I've made up my mind.
Mr. Samuel Ratchett: That's a lot of money to turn down.
Hercule Poirot: I've been very fortunate in my career, Mr. Ratchett, as you have been in yours. I've managed to pay for my needs and my caprices, and now I only take on cases that appeal to me.
Mr. Samuel Ratchett: Really! And what's wrong with this one?
Hercule Poirot: May I speak personally?
Mr. Samuel Ratchett: [With a sweep of his hand] Sure!
Hercule Poirot: I find you intolerable. [He gets up slowly and leaves the table]
Hercule Poirot: Good-bye.
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Edward Ratchett: You are a strange, peculiar man.
Hercule Poirot: I am of an age where I know what I like and what I do not like. What I like, I enjoy enormously. What I dislike, I cannot abide. For instance, the temporary pleasantries before what is determined to be a business discussion.
Edward Ratchett: You're fun.
Hercule Poirot: I am of an age where I know what I like and what I do not like. What I like, I enjoy enormously. What I dislike, I cannot abide. For instance, the temporary pleasantries before what is determined to be a business discussion.
Edward Ratchett: You're fun.
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Hercule Poirot: [Thinking as he walks through the train towards the bar car]My Dear Colonel Armstrong. Finally, I can answer your letter, at least with the thoughts in my head and the feeling in my heart that somewhere you can hear me. I have now discovered the truth of the case and it is profoundly disturbing. I have seen the fracture of the human soul. So many broken lives, so much pain and anger giving way to the poison of deep grief until one crime became many. I have always wanted to believe that man is rational and civilised. My very existence depends upon this hope, upon order and methods and the little grey cells, but now perhaps I am asked to listen instead to my heart. [pause]
Hercule Poirot: [Addressing the passengers in the bar car]Ladies and gentlemen. I have understood in this case that the scales of justice cannot always be evenly weighed and I must learn for once to live with the imbalance. There are no killers here, only people who deserve a chance to heal. The police have accepted my first solution to the crime, the lone assassin who made his escape. I will leave the train here to conclude formalities. You are all free to go. May you find your peace with this. May we all.
Hercule Poirot: [Addressing the passengers in the bar car]Ladies and gentlemen. I have understood in this case that the scales of justice cannot always be evenly weighed and I must learn for once to live with the imbalance. There are no killers here, only people who deserve a chance to heal. The police have accepted my first solution to the crime, the lone assassin who made his escape. I will leave the train here to conclude formalities. You are all free to go. May you find your peace with this. May we all.
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Miss Mary Debenham: I'm sleeping here where everyone can see me. And I can see everyone.
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Hercule Poirot: There was right. There was wrong. Now there is you. I cannot judge this. You must decide.
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Hercule Poirot: I can only see the world as it should be. And when it is not, the imperfection stands out like the nose in the middle of a face. It makes most of life unbearable. But, it is useful in the detection of crime.
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Hercule Poirot: Whatever people say, there is right. There is wrong. There is nothing in-between.
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Hercule Poirot: My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.
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Hercule Poirot: [Having just stepped in animal droppings with one of his shoes]Is it not the... it is the imbalance of the... [Steps his other shoe in the droppings]
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Gerhard Hardman: I would prefer, in the future, to sit not with that man. Like should be seated with like. We are not alike.
Miss Mary Debenham: Not all of us are so concerned with the separateness of races, Professor.
Gerhard Hardman: It is out of respect for all kinds that I prefer to keep them separate. To mix your red wine and the white. would be to ruin them both.
Miss Mary Debenham: [Miss Debenham does just that]I like a good rosÚ!
Miss Mary Debenham: Not all of us are so concerned with the separateness of races, Professor.
Gerhard Hardman: It is out of respect for all kinds that I prefer to keep them separate. To mix your red wine and the white. would be to ruin them both.
Miss Mary Debenham: [Miss Debenham does just that]I like a good rosÚ!
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Hercule Poirot: I have the advantage. I can only see the world as it should be so the imperfections stand out.
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Hercule Poirot: You know, there is something about a tangle of strangers pressed together for days with nothing in common but the need to go from one place to another and never see each other again.
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Bouc: The best things on the train are not food. There's something about a tangle of strangers pressed together for days on end, with nothing in common but the need to go from one place to another, then never see each other again. Boredom plus anonymity plus a constant gentle rocking.
Hercule Poirot: With your hobbies, you will never amount to anything.
Bouc: God, I hope so.
Hercule Poirot: With your hobbies, you will never amount to anything.
Bouc: God, I hope so.
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Hercule Poirot: Have you ever been to America?
Edward Henry Masterman: Once. Years ago, briefly.
Hercule Poirot: For what purpose?
Edward Henry Masterman: To confirm a suspicion.
Hercule Poirot: Which was?
Edward Henry Masterman: That I wouldn't like it.
Edward Henry Masterman: Once. Years ago, briefly.
Hercule Poirot: For what purpose?
Edward Henry Masterman: To confirm a suspicion.
Hercule Poirot: Which was?
Edward Henry Masterman: That I wouldn't like it.
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Pilar Estravados: Some things are in God's hands. It is not up to us if we survive safely or like Lucifer fall.
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Caroline Hubbard: They're not killers. They're good people. They can be good again.
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Bouc: [Offering champagne to the guests in the dining car]Compliments of the Orient Express.
Pilar Estravados: No, thank you. I do not drink.
Bouc: It does not agree with you?
Pilar Estravados: Sin does not agree with me. Vice is where the devil finds his darlings.
Bouc: We should no longer speak.
Pilar Estravados: No, thank you. I do not drink.
Bouc: It does not agree with you?
Pilar Estravados: Sin does not agree with me. Vice is where the devil finds his darlings.
Bouc: We should no longer speak.
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Hercule Poirot: Ah, Mrs Hubbard, I'm sorry to have kept you. You have a head full of steam and a mouth full of words.
Caroline Hubbard: You're goddamn right, I do.
Caroline Hubbard: You're goddamn right, I do.
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Edward Ratchett: Please tell me you didn't do this.
Edward Henry Masterman: If I were to leave something unpleasant on your pillow, sir, it would not be a letter.
Edward Henry Masterman: If I were to leave something unpleasant on your pillow, sir, it would not be a letter.
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Hercule Poirot: [Addressing MacQueen]The train is full. I think that we are, how do you say... 'bunkies.' [Long pause. MacQueen says nothing]
Hercule Poirot: I am equally disappointed in you. This is nice!
Hercule Poirot: I am equally disappointed in you. This is nice!
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Hercule Poirot: Bring forth the accused. The Rabbi. The Priest. And the Imam. It is like the - eh - the old joke. Yes? The Rabbi, the Priest, and the Imam. Ma, non. Forgive me, I am Belgian.
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