Poirot (TV Series)

The Lost Mine (1990)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Captain Hastings : Community Chest. You've won second prize in a beauty contest. Collect ten pounds.

  Hercule Poirot : Thank you very much, Hastings. It would appear that skill plays but a little part in this game, hein?

  Captain Hastings : It's all about skill. What to buy and when. Where to put your property.

• Hercule Poirot : The Americans always put the month before the day, Hastings.

  Captain Hastings : Ah!

  Hercule Poirot : Yes, they're very backward people.

• Hercule Poirot : Mais non, c'est impossible! How can I be fifty pounds overdrawn? It is a point of principle that I always keep my balance at four hundred and forty-four pounds, four shillings and four pence. A point of principle!

• Chief Inspector Japp : Charles Lester? We tried him twice this morning. He was out.

  Hercule Poirot : Well, it may be of no worth...

  Chief Inspector Japp : Look, be my guest. For the moment, I've got more important fish to fry.

  Hercule Poirot : Well, Hastings, while the Chief Inspector is frying his important fish, let us see what we can catch, eh?

• [last lines] 

  Hercule Poirot : You know, mon ami, about this game you were right all the time. It is the skill that counts in the end.

• Hercule Poirot : [Playing Monopoly]  I will build a hotel on Fenchurch Street.

  Captain Hastings : You can't build a hotel on a railway station.

  Hercule Poirot : Don't be absurd, Hastings. There are plenty of hotels at railway stations.

  Captain Hastings : But, that's not in the rules.

  Hercule Poirot : Well, then, Hastings, the rules are wrong.

• Hercule Poirot : If you put your head in the mouth of a lion, you cannot complain if one day he bites it off, huh?