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“Then, towards the end of the meal, Anthony Hicks leant across the table towards me and looked me straight in the eye. ‘I want you to remember’, he said, a touch fiercely, ‘that we, the audience, can and will smile with Poirot.’ Then he paused. ‘But we must never, ever, laugh at him.’ There was another pause. ‘And I am most certainly not joking.’ I gulped, before Rosalind said, equally forcefully, ‘And that is why we want you to play him.”
― David Suchet, Poirot and Me

“This is one of the great charms of Poirot’s investigations, for they reveal a world where manners and morals are quite different from today. There are no overt and unnecessary sex scenes, no alcoholic, haunted detectives in Poirot’s world. He lives in a simpler, some would say more human, era: a lost England, seen through the admiring eyes of this foreigner, this little Belgian detective. For me, that makes the stories all the more appealing, for although the days he lives in seem far away, they are all the more enchanting because of it."

"In those first days after the series had begun on ITV, I realised for the first time that Poirot touches people’s hearts in a way that I had never anticipated when I started to play him. I cannot put my finger on precisely how he does it, but somehow he makes those who watch him feel secure. People see him and feel better. I don’t know exactly why that is, but there is something about him. My performance had touched that nerve."

"The more Poirot welcomes his fellow characters, the more the audience sympathise with him, and the more he extends his gentle control over everything around him, as if wrapping it all in his own personal glow. I believe he is unique in fictional detectives in that respect, because he carefully welcomes everyone – be they reader, viewer, or participant character – into his drama. He then quietly explains what it all means and, in doing so, he becomes what one critic called ‘our dearest friend’.”
― David Suchet, Poirot and Me

“But stay away from him, Juliana. When we said we wanted to make you a good match, Leighton was not who we imagined."
Even her brother thought Simon too good for her.
"Because he is a duke?"
"What? No," Ralston said, truly perplexed by her instant defensive response. "Because he's an ass.”
― Sarah MacLean, Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart

“This was it, a crossroad where a happy home was within her grasp, and on the other side lay years of loneliness and misery.”
― Anya Wylde, Penelope