Peter Ustinov credited as playing...
Hercule Poirot
- Hercule Poirot: People like to talk, and in doing so they tell the truth. It puts less of a strain on the memory.
- Nadine Boynton: Why do you think Mrs. Boynton was murdered, Monsieur Poirot?
- Hercule Poirot: Well, from all I've heard, it's difficult to understand why she wasn't murdered before.
- Hercule Poirot: Lady Westholme? But she sounds American.
- Dr. Sarah King: Ah, well, her name was Laura Vansittart. She met Lord Westholme on a boat trip back from America. You know, within a month they were married and 10 years later she's a member of our Parliament.
- Hercule Poirot: Which shows the danger of ocean travel.
- Hercule Poirot: This is Colonel Carbury. He's an old friend of mine and he is responsible for keeping the peace in this Holy Land.
- Hercule Poirot: I've got a deep and awful fear that those ladies are going to be on the ship with us.
- Dr. Sarah King: They turned me out because I have on a sleeveless dress. Apparently, the Almighty doesn't like my arms, in spite of having made them.
- Hercule Poirot: Sleeves are holy.
- Dr. Sarah King: Maybe it's their abductors.
- Hercule Poirot: I think the truth is probably more prosaic than that. It usually is you know, Dr King, despite appearances.
- Hercule Poirot: You know, when someone is hated as much as Mrs Boynton was, a sudden death by natural causes seems a little - too convenient.
- Dr. Sarah King: Do you think you've stumbled on another murder, Monsieur Poirot?
- Colonel Carbury: Dr King thought it was natural causes.
- Hercule Poirot: I'm convinced that Mrs Boynton was murdered.
- Colonel Carbury: Can you show me any evidence?
- Hercule Poirot: I can do better than that. I can identify the guilty party.
- Colonel Carbury: Oh, my dear fellow, I couldn't possibly ask you to do that. I mean, you're on holiday after all.
- Dr. Sarah King: How is it you're always in the right place to hear threats and plots, Monsieur Poirot? Hmm?
- Hercule Poirot: Put it down to a gift, if you will.
- Hercule Poirot: Lady Westholme, I badly need your help.
- Lady Westholme: Fire away. Miss Quinton and I will do our best. When it comes to matters of public duty, one must be punctilious.
- Lady Westholme: Lord Peel heads a Royal Commission. On his judgment alone rests the fate of Palestine.
- Hercule Poirot: A task for Solomon.
- Lord Peel: The Arabs wouldn't think so.
- Hercule Poirot: The British aristocracy's well-known for its bad manners. They call it eccentricity. Oh, I'm quite used to it.
- Lady Westholme: Time is pressing on, Monsieur Poirot, and I can't see that this is leading anywhere. Can you, Colonel Carbury?
- Colonel Carbury: Better let Monsieur Poirot proceed in his own manner, dear lady. He usually gets there in the end.
- Hercule Poirot: Usually? Always.
- Colonel Carbury: It's like a scene from a play.
- Hercule Poirot: Yes, well, if you wish to present a comedy, you must first set the scene. And the same is true even if it turns out to be a tragedy.
- Hercule Poirot: Well, I hope they realize, as André Gide did, that to free oneself is nothing. The really arduous task is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Dr. Sarah King: Jerusalem was the capital of Judea and Samaria. The Jewish people had a state here in Biblical times.
- Raymond Boynton: Yes, now they flock in from every country in Europe. Makes a lot of trouble for us, I can tell you.
- Hercule Poirot: Well, I thought that man, Weizmann, put it rather well the other day, before Lord Peel's commission here in Jerusalem. "There are six million Jews in Europe," he said, "for whom the world is divided into two parts: places in which they are not allowed to live and places they cannot enter." It will have to be solved.