Hercule PoirotThe crime is murder. The murderer is one of you. I have investigated many crimes, but this has altered the shape of my soul. I am detective Hercule Poirot, and I will deliver your killer.
Hercule PoirotThe romance of the desert has the power to seduce. I ask you: have you ever loved so much, been so possessed by jealousy, that you might kill?
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Hercule PoirotFlirtation, however delightful, will have no effect.
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Hercule Poirot[Delivering the results of his investigation of Salome Otterbourne]She drinks to excess twice a week or more, she smokes cigarettes of various compositions, and I believe that at least 2 of her marriages were not, I think, strictly legally ended. But she is a magnificent personality.
Hercule Poirot[from the trailer]The murderer is here... and will stay here.
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Salome OtterbourneMonsieur Poirot, if I put a bullet in everyone who took a potshot at me for not keeping to my place, the world would be littered with dead white ladies.
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Hercule PoirotThere was one final question. It is a curiosity of mine. Your hat. In the turban style. As many times as I have seen you, you have always worn one like it, but it is out of the fashion, no?
Hercule Poirot[observing a couple]Ah, love. It is not safe.
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Rosalie OtterbourneYou were the first girl who ever told me that a woman can run her affairs as well as a man or better. Don't tell me that score changed with one little husband.
Linnet RidgewayIt's love. It's not a game played fair. There are no rules.
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Salome OtterbourneOoh, I like this. The full force of his forceful attention. The great mind, all mine.
Hercule PoirotFlirtation, however delightful, will have no effect.
Salome OtterbourneA woman shows you a direct bit of interest and you assume it can only be to hide guilt. Whoever she was must've done a number on you.
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BoucOf all the pyramids in all the world, you had to walk up to mine. What a small world.
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BoucI tried jobs. An office. I could manage the work, I just couldn't fathom mornings. But I've made ends meet as a kept man.
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Hercule PoirotI once felt as you do. I loved so much. I thought that if I lost her, I should die. I lost her.
WindleshamBorn to, not earned. What I do as Lord Windlesham belongs to buck-toothed tradition. What I do as doctor is mine.
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Jacqueline de BellefortIt's a .22 caliber. It's practically a toy. Maybe, to fix a broken heart. All it takes is a single bullet.
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Captain RensFind your nerve, men. We risk our lives but we can take back our home! For centuries, poets have dreamt of dying for love. I suppose we shall be the lucky ones.
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Jacqueline de BellefortHe's big, and square, and boyish, and beautifully simple. And that's it.
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Katherine[about Hercule's disfiguring injury]It's simple. You'll grow a mustache.
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Hercule PoirotYou have known Madame Doyle for some time?
Jacqueline de BellefortWe met doing the school play. "Antony and Cleopatra." I was Cleopatra, until the teacher came a week before opening and decided to give my part to Linnet. I was stuck with Charmian, the handmaid.
Hercule PoirotI have my cases. I have my books. In fact, I have my eye on a cottage where I hope, eventually to retire and - garden. I hope to perfect a new strain of the vegetable marrows.
Hercule PoirotI am Hercule Poirot. I do not need to be told. I have eyes and they see. A brain and it thinks. It now thinks somewhat poorly of you.
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Rosalie OtterbourneHave you ever met a man who says his own name as many times as Hercule Poirot?
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Hercule PoirotI love to talk. An audience. I am vain, you see. I love people to hear me bring the solution to a crime and say, "See, how clever is Hercule Poirot."
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Rosalie OtterbourneHe is obsessive, is vain, is smug, is lonely for a reason. A detestable, tiresome, bombastic, egocentric little freak!
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Hercule PoirotShe drinks to excess twice a week or more. She smokes cigarettes of various compositions.
BoucI thought Poirot was impervious to love's fever.
Hercule PoirotI was sick with it once. It left me with enough regret for a lifetime.
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KatherineDo you have any idea how love works? When you love someone, you love them - through all their moods and changes over time. Their worst qualities peak at nuisance. Their flaws become freckles.
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Hercule PoirotMonsieur? Monsieur, alors! Monsieur! You are defiling one of the Wonders of the World! And also, by the way, ruining a sublime Jaffa cake! Monsieur!
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BoucAh, the bereaved. There's one at every wedding party. The good Doctor Windlesham proposed to Miss Ridgeway when she was still Miss Ridgeway. He and the papers both had the deal as good as done. Then came the engorged stallion, and now it's Mrs. Doyle.
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WindleshamI am calm, capable, and coping. Dignity.
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Simon DoyleIt's indecent, what she's doing. And melodramatic. And she's making an ass of herself is what it is.
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Jacqueline de BellefortSimon loves me! Simon loves me. I know it. Even if he's forgotten, dazzled by her. Love that fierce doesn't vanish. I love him. I love him madly. Badly, at every minute. It's not something I can switch off. There's a reason the heart is the organ given to love, you know. If it stops to rest, we die. And I won't die alone, you can be sure of that.
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Euphemia BoucIt's bad enough to be married for one lifetime. To be side by side for eternity is inhumane.
Euphemia BoucPeople build towers to love in song and stone as if cooing over a pair of dark eyes will save them from pain. If anything, it will double it.
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Linnet RidgewayWhat would Cleopatra say? "Oh, Charmian. Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he or sits he? Or does he walk? Or is he on his horse? Oh, happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony! He is speaking now. Or murmuring."
Hercule PoirotMademoiselle, you have a choice still. You can ruin his life or begin a new one. It may not be the life that you imagined, but perhaps it will be the life that God intended.
Jacqueline de BellefortYou can't get rid of me that easily, Simon. We were bound. Heart and body, I gave you all of me.
Simon DoyleA few months of good times? Hmm? Were they even that good? I swear, looking at you now makes all the fond memories go sour. It's like trying to remember a party after you've been sick.
Hercule PoirotI had to consume many doses of the bluesy music, which, I confess, I did not expect to enjoy, but, in fact, I did very much as performed by Madame Otterbourne. It was unusual for me, but it was very nice.
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Simon DoyleDid you catch him? Poirot, did you catch whoever it was?
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BoucYou were a terrible friend, Poirot. Why did you have to teach me to be good?
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Salome Otterbourne[singing]You know what? We got to have more love, More understanding every day of our lives, And that's all...
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Jacqueline de BellefortWe're desperate to be married as soon as possible. That's why I wanted to see you.
Linnet RidgewayWhen you have money, no one is ever really your friend. Now I'm remembering old jealousies and fights. It takes a pill to get to sleep. I don't feel safe with any of them.
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Louise Bourget[gazing up at the statues of Abu Simbel]He is a man in love.
Marie Van SchuylerHe murdered half of Nubia. Great useless blocks of masonry put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic bloated king.
BowersMm, I really like their hats.
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BoucAll my life, I never wanted to be anything to anyone but an amusement.
Hercule PoirotAcquired tastes require acquisition, and here, you moon over truffle and king crabs. So, too, your gown, Chanel, your luggage, Vuitton, your shoes, Perugia.
Hercule PoirotNo, no. No, no, no. I merely, uh, suggest a - a possibility.
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BoucBehind every kite-flying man, there is a woman.
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BoucLucky devil. Fancy finding the one heiress without adenoids and flat feet.
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Salome Otterbourne[singing]You had me in thou bosom, Till the storms of life is over, Rock me, In a cradle of thou love, Only feeeeeeeeeeeed, Then you take me...
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Hercule PoirotA person in love will do anything. Love makes us do reckless things. Rash things.
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BoucWe weren't close, just familiar. My parents considered her parents their equals, so we grew up at the same parties and wound up kissing each other's friends.
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Rosalie OtterbourneHe told me how much he hoped you'd be happy one day, too. That you'd get tired of being just a pure cold detective. Be human instead. I don't want you happy.
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Euphemia BoucCorinthians had it wrong on every point. Love isn't patient or kind. It envies and boasts and doesn't care who gets mowed down. It angers, it is irritable, it keeps record of every transgression against it, and good God, it fails. Sure as a face ages, love fails.