Quotes from Peter Ustinov movies and TV shows

Hercule Poirot: People like to talk, and in doing so they tell the truth. It puts less of a strain on the memory.

Hercule Poirot: Mr. South.
Eddie South: "Eddie"'s fine.
Hercule Poirot: Mr. South.

Ariadne Oliver: So what did you come up with? I'm dying to know.
Hercule Poirot: So am I.

Sally Legge: I really think you should mind your own business.
Hercule Poirot: I have tried... but I can't.

Hercule Poirot: No family portraits, Mrs. Folliat?
Amy Folliatt: When one has lost a family, portraits are only memory, and memory is like dead wood. It must be cut away if one is to go on.

Hercule Poirot: "Greedy" you say? Is there anything greedier than destroying something because it stands in the way of your miserable ambitions?

Hercule Poirot: I haven't given up, Mrs. Folliat. I will not give up. Hercule Poirot will never give up.

Hercule Poirot: There is a considerable difference between military intelligence and... normal intelligence.

Hercule Poirot: There those who have to exercise their little grey cells, and some who lock people in them.

Hercule Poirot: Children are erratic, or so I'm told. I don't have the privelege of knowing many.

Ariadne Oliver: It's just like my murder.
Hercule Poirot: It is, Mrs. Oliver. Just like your murder, except... this one is dead.

Jim Ferguson: You damn froggy eavesdropper.
Hercule Poirot: Belgian! Belgian eavesdropper.

Col. Johnny Race: Why doesn't someone murder her.
Hercule Poirot: Well maybe the world's lending libraries will band together and hire an assassin.

Andrew Pennington: What the hell is going on?
Hercule Poirot: We're going through your private papers, sir, isn't that obvious?

Mrs. Van Schuyler: You perfectly foul French upstart.
Hercule Poirot: Belgian upstart, please, madame.

Frederick the Wise: The Roman Inquisition does not give hearings. It gives death sentences.

Hercule Poirot: Have you ever noticed a secret passage that does not start in the library?

Hercule Poirot: Porot is only on the side of one thing... and that is the truth.

Emperor Nero: Is it possible that human beings can produce such a sound?
Petronius: Yes, when they've been pushed too far.

Emperor Nero: Poppaea, one woman shouldn't judge another. She hasn't the glands for it. Ha-ha.