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- Chief Inspector James Japp: It's the little chaps that keep things on an even keel - chaps like you and me.
- Hercule Poirot: Ah, but there are no "little chaps", Chief Inspector. Particularly not Poirot.
- Julia Olivera: I've never heard of a dentist committing suicide before. Wouldn't happen in the States, you can be sure of that; they're too damn rich to kill themselves!
- Julia Olivera: I hope this is a matter of importance, Alistair. That Belgian detective sent a most insolent message to us.
- Hercule Poirot: Mr. Blunt, you talk of the continued peace of this nation, hein. Oh, yes, that is right, but Poirot is not concerned with nations. Poirot is concerned with private individuals, who have the right not to have taken from them their lives.
- Hercule Poirot: [after Japp suggests tea in his home] Do you have, perhaps, a tisane?
- Chief Inspector James Japp: Oh, come off of it, Poirot. This is...
- Blunt: You're an odd man, Monsieur Poirot.
- Hercule Poirot: Oh, yes, I am. Very odd. That is to say, I am methodical, orderly, and logical, and I do not like to distort facts to support a theory.