Maggie Smith credited as playing...
Miss Bowers
- Jacqueline De Bellefort: [of Doyle] I was mad last night. I might have killed him. Do you think he'll ever forgive me?
- Miss Bowers: It's more than likely. It's been my experience that men are least attracted to women who treat them well.
- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Shut up, Bowers. Just because you've got a grudge against her, or rather her father, no need to be uncivil.
- Miss Bowers: *Grudge*? Melhuish Ridgeway ruined my family!
- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Well, you should be grateful. If he hadn't, you would have missed out on the pleasure of working for me.
- Miss Bowers: I could kill her on that score alone!
- Mrs. Van Schuyler: How would a little trip down the Nile suit you?
- Miss Bowers: There is nothing I would dislike more. There are two things in the world I can't abide: it's heat and heathens.
- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Good. Then we'll go. Bowers, pack.
- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Come on, Bowers, time to go. This place is beginning to resemble a mortuary.
- Miss Bowers: Thank God you'll be in one yourself before too long, you bloody old fossil!
- Miss Bowers: I think a shot of morphia will meet the case. I've always found it very effective when Mrs Van Schuyler is carrying on.
- Miss Bowers: Poppycock. From whom did you hear that?
- Hercule Poirot: From your own lips, Mademoiselle, three days ago.
- Miss Bowers: How dare you listen to a private conversation!
- Hercule Poirot: Some voices carry.
- Mrs. Van Schuyler: Keep a civil tongue in your head, Bowers, or you'll be out of a job.
- Miss Bowers: What do I care? This town is filled with rich old widows willing to pay for a little groveling and a body massage. You go ahead and fire me.
- Col. Johnny Race: After you gave Miss Jacqueline the morphia, she never stirred all night.
- Miss Bowers: Exactly. Nervous reaction, booze, and morphia - together they'd have sunk the Titanic.