Poirot (TV Series)

The Veiled Lady (1990)

David Suchet: Hercule Poirot

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Quotes 

• Hercule Poirot : They fear me, Hastings. The criminals, they fear Hercule Poirot so much that they have repented of their naughty ways and have become citizens of the most upright.

• Chief Inspector Japp : [Looking into cell where Poirot is being held]  Vicious-looking character, isn't he?

  Sergeant : He hasn't been any trouble.

  Chief Inspector Japp : No, he's too clever for that. We've waited to get our hands on him for months.

  Sergeant : Apart from not giving a name. What is his name?

  Hercule Poirot : This is not funny, Japp.

  Chief Inspector Japp : Well, nobody knows his real name. But everyone calls him Mad Dog.

• Hercule Poirot : You know, Hastings, sometimes I wish that I was not of such a moral disposition.

  Captain Hastings : Really?

  Hercule Poirot : Would not Hercule Poirot do better than any criminal? Hercule Poirot would use his grey cells, huh. Hercule Poirot would change his modus operandi for every crime. Scotland Yard would never be able to pin me down. Ah, Hastings, Hastings. To work against the law for a change. I think it would be quite pleasing. Imagine it - every morning a new crime, huh. Every morning, Inspector Japp tearing his hair. And on every street corner, the cries of the newspaper sellers, 'Read all about it - Monsieur Big reveals everything.'

• Hercule Poirot : Why did you wish to know where Monsieur Lavington lives, Hastings?

  Captain Hastings : I don't know. He was so beastly, the way he talked about Lady Millicent, I wanted to kick him down the stairs, huh.

  Hercule Poirot : You wanted to do it in the comfort of his own home, yes?

• [last lines] 

  Chief Inspector Japp : [watching Hasting's model boat sail]  Did you ever think of going to sea, Poirot?

  Hercule Poirot : No no, my friend, this is as close as I like to get.

  Chief Inspector Japp : I used to dream about the sea.

• Hercule Poirot : Hastings, what a cracksman was lost when Hercule Poirot decided to become the world's greatest detective.

• Captain Hastings : What a stunning girl, though.

  Hercule Poirot : I sometimes think, mon ami, that you are too easily stunned.

• Captain Hastings : You swine!

  Hercule Poirot : Hastings, please.

  Lavington : I say, what an excitable office boy you have.