Dumb Witness

I'm too
fond of living - of being alive - I couldn't do that to any one - take life
from them

"Precisely, it is not in your psychology. Your crimes will always be
the crimes of weakness. To steal, to forge - yes, it is the easiest way
- but to kill - no! To kill one needs the type of mind that can be
obsessed by an idea."

On the night in
question Miss Arundell's breath was phosphorescent

There are four
possibilities - that she died naturally - that she died as the result of
an accident - that she took her own life - or lastly that she met her
death at the hands of some person known or unknown.

A little company of people, all outwardly composed
with well-bred masks for faces. And I had seen Poirot strip the
mask from one face and show it for what it was - the face of a killer!

Poirot never ceased to complain of faulty psychology,
and the hero detective's lack of order and method nearly drove him
demented.

Never take a soldier to a military
play, a sailor to a naval play, a Scotsman to a Scottish play, a
detective to a thriller - and an actor to any play whatsoever!

"Theresa believes that any one would do anything for money,"

"And I doubt if a mind trained to scientific complexities would think
of anything so childish as the accident plan - it would be altogether
too haphazard."

"Oh, it doesn't matter. I'm always three quarters of an hour late for
everything. I might just as well make it an hour."