Poirot (TV Series)
Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (1993)
David Suchet: Hercule Poirot
Quotes
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[last lines]
Hercule Poirot : You are Lucky Len of the Daily Echo, and I claim my ten guineas.
Lucky Len : You're right. I was Lucky Len, but I'm sorry, I got fired this morning.
Hercule Poirot : Fired! Why?
Lucky Len : Too many people were recognizing me. The paper's decided it must be my face. It's too common.
Hercule Poirot : Common?
Lucky Len : That's what they say. Bit of a cheek, if you ask me, but there you are.
Hercule Poirot : They are wrong, mon ami. You have a face that is most distinguished. You have no need to work for this newspaper. You have a face of a great man.
Lucky Len : You think so?
Hercule Poirot : Oh, yes; I know it.
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Hercule Poirot : This holiday, Hastings, already I begin to have second thoughts.
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Hercule Poirot : No no no, Hastings! It is no use! Not to take this case is for Poirot more hard work than to take it!
[Poirot unable to resist a mystery]
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Margaret Opalsen : I bet you'd guessed who'd stolen the pearls by the second interval, Monsieur Poirot.
Hercule Poirot : Not at all, Madame, it was a question that ceased to occupy my mind long before the first.
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Hercule Poirot : Hastings, I must contact the good Miss Lemon in London.
Captain Hastings : What for?
Hercule Poirot : This case, Hastings, I begin to see the light.
Captain Hastings : But I do not understand.
Hercule Poirot : You heard what the young lady said?
Chief Inspector Japp : Oscar Wilde?
Hercule Poirot : Exactement. Hastings, there is work to be done.