Poirot (TV Series)

Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1994)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

Quotes 

• Simeon Lee : My family hate me, you know.

  Hercule Poirot : It is not hard to see why.

• Superintendent Sugden : [referring to the missing diamonds]  They definitely only were missing, but only two people could have done it, and one of them might have done it as a joke.

  Hercule Poirot : I have yet to meet anybody in this household that has even the most rudimentary sense of humor.

• Simeon Lee : You don't look very tough.

  Hercule Poirot : Hercule Poirot is a detective not a bodyguard, monsieur.

• Hercule Poirot : Ah, chief inspector. You have been thinking again. I have warned you of this before.

  Japp : Oh, well.

• Japp : You've seen a ghost or something, Poirot?

  Hercule Poirot : Chief inspector, I might just have done precisely that.

• Japp : What are you doing here, Poirot?

  Hercule Poirot : I have come to rescue you, mon ami.

• Simeon Lee : [Telephone rings]  Hercule Poirot?

  Hercule Poirot : Yes, it is I Hercule Poirot who speaks.

• Japp : Very violent sort of blokes, these Africans.

  Hercule Poirot : Europeans do not figure too badly in the arts of violence, Chief Inspector.

• Japp : What are these bloomin' things, Poirot?

  Hercule Poirot : Ah. Now these are the miniature gardens of Madame Alfred Lee.

  Japp : What's the point of havin' a miniature garden? I mean, you can't do anything with it, can you? You can't take a deck chair out and sit it in.

• Japp : Ah, but it gives you the creeps - this place, doesn't it?

  Hercule Poirot : You are too sensitive, mon ami.

  Japp : That's true.