"The taste of that coffee is still in my...mouth." --Sir Claud Amory, Black Coffee
"Why didn't they ask Evans?" --Alan Carstairs, The Boomerang Clue
"Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out." --Jane Marple, Murder at the Vicarage
"If you could order crime as one orders a dinner, what would you choose?" --Arthur Hastings, The ABC Murders
"Murder, I have often noticed, is a great matchmaker." --Hercule Poirot, The ABC Murders
"Two young adventures for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused." --Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, The Secret Adversary
"A madman is a very dangerous thing." --Hercule Poirot, The ABC Murders
"If the gray cells are not exercised, they grow the rust." --Hercule Poirot, The ABC Murders
"Never, in the whole of London, have I seen a pair of moustaches to equal mine." --Hercule Poirot, The ABC Murders
"One is never quite sure of one's purpose, is one?" --Mr. Quin, "The Harlequin Tea Set"