The Alphabet Murders (1965)

Tony Randall: Hercule Poirot

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Quotes 

• Hastings : Where have you been? What have you been doing?

  Hercule Poirot : Arranging a little extra insurance my friend.

  Hastings : Oh really? Personally I always feel perfectly safe with British railways. Mind you its very different in France, isn't it?

  Hercule Poirot : I wouldn't know. I am not French, I am Belgian.

  Hastings : Well it's the same thing, you both eat horsemeat.

• Hastings : I thought you'd given up smoking?

  Hercule Poirot : This is a celebration.

  [lights his cigarette] 

  Hastings : Oh, really? What are you celebrating?

  Hercule Poirot : I'm celebrating my first cigarette in 51 days.

• Hercule Poirot : You have disgraced yourself!

  Hastings : How so, pray?

  Hercule Poirot : One does not expect an Englishmen to be an assassin.

• Amanda Beatrice Cross : There's going to be a murder. I'm frightened! That's why I'm here. I'm terribly frightened!

  Hercule Poirot : Oh, you think someone is going to kill you, eh?

  Amanda Beatrice Cross : No, I'm going to kill someone.

  Hercule Poirot : No more massage, please.

• Hastings : Her Majesty's government seems to think that you're a very important person and, as such, are entitled to protection. I understand you're not very popular with the criminal classes.

  Hercule Poirot : No.

  Hastings : It would be the most almighty top-level fuss, you know, if you were stabbed, shot or blown up, or did suffer any inconvenience while on British soil.

  Hercule Poirot : Yes. Yes, I suppose it would, actually. Well, in that case, I suppose you must join me in a massage, my faithful bulldog.

• Japp : I'd like to apologize for this misunderstanding, sir. I thought the name was Pairot, of course, if I had realized it was Perot.

  Hercule Poirot : Poirot.

• Franklin : My step brother lives in a square world of his own, Mr. Poirot. For instance, he still thinks I'm too young to drink.

  Hercule Poirot : Most people are.

• Hercule Poirot : Please, do not follow Poirot. This is London. Nothing is going to happen.

• Amanda Beatrice Cross : Do you want my balloons?

  Hercule Poirot : Yes.

• Duncan Doncaster : I suppose your business is blackmail.

  Hercule Poirot : My business is justice. I'm Poirot.

• Duncan Doncaster : She was an experiment.

  Hercule Poirot : An experiment?

  Duncan Doncaster : A near perfect specimen of the primitive aggressive female acquisitive personality. In lay language, a gold digger.

• Hercule Poirot : Who is ABC?

  Duncan Doncaster : ABC?

  Hercule Poirot : Blonde. Beautiful. Very tall.

  Duncan Doncaster : You speak of Amanda, of course.

  Hercule Poirot : Amanda? Amanda who?

  Duncan Doncaster : Amanda Beatrice Cross.

  Hercule Poirot : A-B-C!

• Hercule Poirot : Tell me doctor, is it possible for such a person to be dominated?

• Hercule Poirot : I trust you'll allow me to accept defeat with dignity. I don't relish this - this bum's rush.

• [last lines] 

  Hercule Poirot : Sir, Hastings, dear friend, you're taking this like a Belgian.