82 Murder on the Orient Express Quotes (2026) #3

Murder on the Orient Express

Gerhard Hardman: My conference is in Turin. I am the only Austrian to present, which means without me, the talks will be substandard.

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Hercule Poirot: I love the little cakes.

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Bouc: [to Poirot] Are you still enjoying your Dickens?

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Bouc: [Offering champagne to the guests in the dining car] Compliments of the Orient Express.
Pilar Estravados: No, thank you. I do not drink.
Bouc: It does not agree with you?
Pilar Estravados: Sin does not agree with me. Vice is where the devil finds his darlings.
Bouc: We should no

longer speak.

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Hercule Poirot: Miss Estravados, why do your hands have the calluses of a boxer?
Pilar Estravados: I do my work in dangerous cities where I cannot be governed by fear. I trained to fight.
Hercule Poirot: But you do not trust your god anymore since your 'surprise'?
Pilar Estravados: No, in case He is busy.

Hercule Poirot: God is always busy.

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Hercule Poirot: You come from Baghdad?
Miss Mary Debenham: It's true. No detail escapes his notice!
Hercule Poirot: Your ticket.
[points in her purse]
Hercule Poirot: I might also ask you if you enjoyed your time there - as a governess? The chalk on your sleeve and the Geography Primer. A governess or a

cartographer. I made my gamble.
Miss Mary Debenham: I always begin them with geography and monster them until the have the world down cold. They may get lost in math; but, I'll be damned if they don't know where they are.

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Hercule Poirot: I am at my happiest alone.

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Edward Ratchett: You see, someone's out to get me. I know I'm not the best guy born. Not by a long shot. And if there's a world after this one, I will face judgment, just like you. But, I ain't in no goddamn rush to do it.

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Hercule Poirot: I have my Dickens!
Bouc: Damn your Dickens!

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Hercule Poirot: I do not approve of murder, my friend. Every day we need people to work and to do better without; yet, we do not kill them. We must be better than the beasts. So, let us find this killer.

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Hercule Poirot: If there was a murder; then, there was a murderer. The murderer is with us - on the train - now.

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Hercule Poirot: You were fond of him?
Hector MacQueen: I was fond of his money.

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Bouc: You have to find who did this. Please, I implore you, on behalf of the Orient Express. When the police arrive, you present them with a case closed. You are the only one who can save me.
Hercule Poirot: You faith touches me, mon cher. But, I must have this rest.
Bouc: Well, think of it as a little beachside puzzle. That's

nothing to your mind! You, you look up the antecedents of the passengers, you establish their bona fides and then you do what you do.