Poirot (TV Series)

Murder in Mesopotamia (2001)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

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• Bill Coleman : [after going over a bump while driving his jeep at high speed through the desert]  Whoops!

  Hercule Poirot : [groaning with discomfort]  Unh!

  Bill Coleman : That was a good one!

  Hastings : [with annoyance]  We don't have to get there in five minutes, you know!

  Bill Coleman : That's half the fun. You're growing old, Ucle Arthur.

  Hercule Poirot : Mr. Coleman, I myself have aged ten years since entering this auto mobile.

• Hercule Poirot : ...the people most important that you deal with are those that are dead.

  Dr. Leidner : But you don't have as much paper work.

  [laughs] 

  Hercule Poirot : [amused]  For the world it is drowning in paper.

• Hastings : But why would she write threatening letters to herself?

  Hercule Poirot : Oh, I think that would be an assumption too great to make, Hastings, on the grounds of the similarity of the handwritings. But if it were so, it would not be an occurrence unheard of.

  Hastings : Pretty ruddy silly if you ask me.

  Hercule Poirot : Ah, well, if only people would ask you, Hastings, they would refrain from the ruddy silliness, huh?

• Hercule Poirot : Hastings, I think I shall rest here for the night.

  Hastings : Good man. Why run after her? Show her your independence. As an old married man, I don't mind telling you, Poirot...

  Hercule Poirot : Hastings, is it not true that your wife requested that you should leave?

  Hastings : Well, that's true, but... .

  Hercule Poirot : And that she requested that you should leave not only your home but the continent in which it is situated?

  Hastings : Yes, but just for a holiday; she felt she needed a bit of a break.

  Hercule Poirot : Then perhaps you would kindly not to presume to lecture me as an expert on the psychology of women.

• Anne Johnson : [excavating the body of a child]  Poor little beggar! He's about... six years old, I'd say. Sent into the next world with nothing but a little pot and a couple of bead necklaces.

  Hercule Poirot : Perhaps that is all any of us need, Mademoiselle Johnson.

• Hastings : I say, Poirot, was that tasteless of me, mentioning the countess?

  Hercule Poirot : Could you ever be tasteless, Hastings?

  Hastings : [smiling]  No.

• Hercule Poirot : But facts, Hastings, facts. These are the cobbles that make up the road along which we travel.

• Hercule Poirot : However deep one buries an unpleasantness, a dog, he will always root it out again.