- Marie Van Schuyler: You accuse me now of murder?
- Bouc: Oh, no, he accuses everyone of murder.
- Hercule Poirot: It is a problem, I admit.
- Hercule Poirot: The romance of the desert has the power to seduce. I ask you: have you ever loved so much, been so possessed by jealousy, that you might kill?
- Hercule Poirot: The crime is murder. The murderer is one of you. I have investigated many crimes, but this has altered the shape of my soul. I am detective Hercule Poirot, and I will deliver your killer.
- Hercule Poirot: [Delivering the results of his investigation of Salome Otterbourne] She drinks to excess twice a week or more, she smokes cigarettes of various compositions, and I believe that at least 2 of her marriages were not, I think, strictly legally ended. But she is a magnificent personality.
- Salome Otterbourne: Monsieur Poirot, if I put a bullet in everyone who took a potshot at me for not keeping to my place, the world would be littered with dead white ladies.
- Rosalie Otterbourne: You were the first girl who ever told me that a woman can run her affairs as well as a man or better. Don't tell me that score changed with one little husband.
- Hercule Poirot: Do you have a husband, madame?
- Salome Otterbourne: I've had a handful of husbands. Each one, a handful.
- Rosalie Otterbourne: [to Jacqueline "Jackie" de Bellefort on murdering Bouc]
- [venomously]
- Rosalie Otterbourne: I Will *Watch* You *Die*
- Hercule Poirot: Madame, I am so moved. Your bluesy music has joy on top for the dancing, yet there is tragedy in there, too.
- Salome Otterbourne: Writing tragedy is easy. I just imagine someone I wanna punish. Then I imagine them in love.
- Hercule Poirot: There was one final question. It is a curiosity of mine. Your hat. In the turban style. As many times as I have seen you, you have always worn one like it, but it is out of the fashion, no?
- Salome Otterbourne: Not when I wear it.
- Hercule Poirot: Mon ami, Bouc! Why would you fly a kite on the pyramids?
- Bouc: Because no one ever has! Thousands of years, right here, and I'm the first!
- Hercule Poirot: You are the first.
- Bouc: I tried jobs. An office. I could manage the work, I just couldn't fathom mornings. But I've made ends meet as a kept man.
- Marie Van Schuyler: "Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life."
- Euphemia Bouc: Money is the only friend a woman can rely on.
- Simon Doyle: After all, I couldn't refuse...
- Marie Van Schuyler: What?
- Simon Doyle: The Queen of the Nile.
- Linnet Ridgeway: [dressed as Cleopatra] "I have immortal longings in me."
- Hercule Poirot: I once felt as you do. I loved so much. I thought that if I lost her, I should die. I lost her.
- Jacqueline de Bellefort: To another man?
- Hercule Poirot: A mortar shell.
- Linnet Ridgeway: Don't worry about waking me.
- Jacqueline de Bellefort: You're not joining her, Simon?
- Linnet Ridgeway: Oh, we've already made love today. Twice.
- Simon Doyle: Three times.
- Jacqueline de Bellefort: Sleep well, la reine Linnet.
- Salome Otterbourne: Ooh, I like this. The full force of his forceful attention. The great mind, all mine.
- Hercule Poirot: Flirtation, however delightful, will have no effect.
- Salome Otterbourne: A woman shows you a direct bit of interest and you assume it can only be to hide guilt. Whoever she was must've done a number on you.
- Hercule Poirot: You go by Dr. Windlesham, but this is not your natural title.
- Windlesham: No.
- Hercule Poirot: Lord Windlesham.
- Windlesham: Born to, not earned. What I do as Lord Windlesham belongs to buck-toothed tradition. What I do as doctor is mine.
- Captain Rens: Find your nerve, men. We risk our lives but we can take back our home! For centuries, poets have dreamt of dying for love. I suppose we shall be the lucky ones.
- Jacqueline de Bellefort: It's a .22 caliber. It's practically a toy. Maybe, to fix a broken heart. All it takes is a single bullet.
- Hercule Poirot: You have known Madame Doyle for some time?
- Jacqueline de Bellefort: We met doing the school play. "Antony and Cleopatra." I was Cleopatra, until the teacher came a week before opening and decided to give my part to Linnet. I was stuck with Charmian, the handmaid.
- Salome Otterbourne: Are you married, Mr. Poirot?
- Hercule Poirot: I have not that felicity.
- Salome Otterbourne: Which felicity do you have?
- Hercule Poirot: I have my cases. I have my books. In fact, I have my eye on a cottage where I hope, eventually to retire and - garden. I hope to perfect a new strain of the vegetable marrows.
- Bouc: All the money in the world and she's in the freezer with the hams.
- Hercule Poirot: This is as much dignity as we can afford the dead in these circumstances.
- Katchadourian: Who told you?
- Hercule Poirot: I am Hercule Poirot. I do not need to be told. I have eyes and they see. A brain and it thinks. It now thinks somewhat poorly of you.
- Hercule Poirot: She drinks to excess twice a week or more. She smokes cigarettes of various compositions.
- Rosalie Otterbourne: He is obsessive, is vain, is smug, is lonely for a reason. A detestable, tiresome, bombastic, egocentric little freak!
- Hercule Poirot: I love to talk. An audience. I am vain, you see. I love people to hear me bring the solution to a crime and say, "See, how clever is Hercule Poirot."
- Jacqueline de Bellefort: We're desperate to be married as soon as possible. That's why I wanted to see you.
- Linnet Ridgeway: You're not...
- Jacqueline de Bellefort: What? No, no. But we have sex a lot.
- Linnet Ridgeway: Shhh...
- Jacqueline de Bellefort: Constantly.
- Linnet Ridgeway: Jackie!
- Jacqueline de Bellefort: Sorry, it's true.
- [giggles]
- Salome Otterbourne: [singing] You know what? We got to have more love, More understanding every day of our lives, And that's all...
- Katherine: Do you have any idea how love works? When you love someone, you love them - through all their moods and changes over time. Their worst qualities peak at nuisance. Their flaws become freckles.
- Hercule Poirot: Monsieur? Monsieur, alors! Monsieur! You are defiling one of the Wonders of the World! And also, by the way, ruining a sublime Jaffa cake! Monsieur!
- Salome Otterbourne: [singing] While the world of love, Is around me, Evil thoughts do bind me, But, oh, if you leave me, I will die...
- Bouc: Ah, the bereaved. There's one at every wedding party. The good Doctor Windlesham proposed to Miss Ridgeway when she was still Miss Ridgeway. He and the papers both had the deal as good as done. Then came the engorged stallion, and now it's Mrs. Doyle.
- Simon Doyle: It's indecent, what she's doing. And melodramatic. And she's making an ass of herself is what it is.
- Jacqueline de Bellefort: Simon loves me! Simon loves me. I know it. Even if he's forgotten, dazzled by her. Love that fierce doesn't vanish. I love him. I love him madly. Badly, at every minute. It's not something I can switch off. There's a reason the heart is the organ given to love, you know. If it stops to rest, we die. And I won't die alone, you can be sure of that.