Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Edward Ratchett: You are a strange, peculiar man.
Hercule Poirot: I am of an age where I know what I like and what I do not like. What I like, I enjoy enormously. What I dislike, I cannot abide. For instance, the temporary pleasantries before what is determined to be a business discussion.
Edward Ratchett: You're fun.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: [Thinking as he walks through the train towards the bar car] My Dear Colonel Armstrong. Finally, I can answer your letter, at least with the thoughts in my head and the feeling in my heart that somewhere you can hear me. I have now discovered the truth of the case and it is profoundly disturbing. I have seen the fracture of the human soul. So many broken lives, so

much pain and anger giving way to the poison of deep grief until one crime became many. I have always wanted to believe that man is rational and civilised. My very existence depends upon this hope, upon order and methods and the little grey cells, but now perhaps I am asked to listen instead to my heart.
[pause]
Hercule Poirot: [Addressing the passengers in the bar

car] Ladies and gentlemen. I have understood in this case that the scales of justice cannot always be evenly weighed and I must learn for once to live with the imbalance. There are no killers here, only people who deserve a chance to heal. The police have accepted my first solution to the crime, the lone assassin who made his escape. I will leave the train here to conclude formalities. You are all

free to go. May you find your peace with this. May we all.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Miss Mary Debenham: I'm sleeping here where everyone can see me. And I can see everyone.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: There was right. There was wrong. Now there is you. I cannot judge this. You must decide.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: I can only see the world as it should be. And when it is not, the imperfection stands out like the nose in the middle of a face. It makes most of life unbearable. But, it is useful in the detection of crime.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: Whatever people say, there is right. There is wrong. There is nothing in-between.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: I see evil on this train.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Gerhard Hardman: I would prefer, in the future, to sit not with that man. Like should be seated with like. We are not alike.
Miss Mary Debenham: Not all of us are so concerned with the separateness of races, Professor.
Gerhard Hardman: It is out of respect for all kinds that I prefer to keep them separate. To mix your red wine and

the white. would be to ruin them both.
Miss Mary Debenham: [Miss Debenham does just that] I like a good rosé!

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: I detect criminals. I do not protect them.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: [Having just stepped in animal droppings with one of his shoes] Is it not the... it is the imbalance of the...
[Steps his other shoe in the droppings]
Hercule Poirot: .

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Pilar Estravados: Wine is where the devil finds his darlings.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: I have the advantage. I can only see the world as it should be so the imperfections stand out.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: You know, there is something about a tangle of strangers pressed together for days with nothing in common but the need to go from one place to another and never see each other again.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: Have you ever been to America?
Edward Henry Masterman: Once. Years ago, briefly.
Hercule Poirot: For what purpose?
Edward Henry Masterman: To confirm a suspicion.
Hercule Poirot: Which was?
Edward Henry Masterman: That I wouldn't like it.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Bouc: You know, with your books and your capers, you are missing out on romance.
Hercule Poirot: Romance never goes unpunished.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Edward Ratchett: Well, hello.
Caroline Hubbard: Eyes linger any longer, I'll have to charge you rent.
Edward Ratchett: I'll pay.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Bouc: The best things on the train are not food. There's something about a tangle of strangers pressed together for days on end, with nothing in common but the need to go from one place to another, then never see each other again. Boredom plus anonymity plus a constant gentle rocking.
Hercule Poirot: With your hobbies, you will never amount to anything.

Bouc: God, I hope so.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot: Bring forth the accused. The Rabbi. The Priest. And the Imam. It is like the - eh - the old joke. Yes? The Rabbi, the Priest, and the Imam. Ma, non. Forgive me, I am Belgian.

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

Caroline Hubbard: I am looking forward to getting back. Travel is fine for spicy food, mosques, meeting men; but, eventually, you just miss your own bed.