Murder on the Orient Express (2017) quotes
Director
Kenneth Branagh.
Cast
Kenneth Branagh.
Johnny Depp.
Judi Dench.
When a murder occurs on the train he’s travelling on, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.
I have lived long enough to know what I like. What I dislike, I cannot abide.
– Hercule Poirot
I’m sleeping here where everyone can see me. And I can see everyone.
– Miss Mary Debenham
There is right. There is wrong. There is no in-between.
– Hercule Poirot
The killer is mocking me. Good. His first mistake.
– Hercule Poirot
You know, there is something about a tangle of strangers pressed together for days with nothing in common but the need to go from one place to another and never see each other again.
– Hercule Poirot
My Dear Colonel Armstrong. Finally, I can answer your letter, at least with the thoughts in my head and the feeling in my heart that somewhere you can hear me. I have now discovered the truth of the case and it is profoundly disturbing. I have seen the fracture of the human soul. So many broken lives, so much pain and anger giving way to the poison of deep grief until one crime became many. I have always wanted to believe that man is rational and civilised. My very existence depends upon this hope, upon order and methods and the little grey cells, but now perhaps I am asked to listen instead to my heart.
– Hercule Poirot
Ladies and gentlemen. I have understood in this case that the scales of justice cannot always be evenly weighed and I must learn for once to live with the imbalance. There are no killers here, only people who deserve a chance to heal. The police have accepted my first solution to the crime, the lone assassin who made his escape. I will leave the train here to conclude formalities. You are all free to go. May you find your peace with this. May we all.
– Hercule Poirot
Some things are in God’s hands. It is not up to us if we survive safely or like Lucifer fall.
– Pilar Estravados
They’re not killers. They’re good people. They can be good again.
– Caroline Hubbard
I can only see a world as it should be. It makes an imperfection stick out like the nose on your face.
– Hercule Poirot
I see evil on this train.
– Hercule Poirot
There was right. There was wrong. Then there was you. I cannot judge you for this.
– Hercule Poirot
Romance never goes unpunished.
– Hercule Poirot
Wine is where the devil finds his darlings.
– Pilar Estravados
I detect criminals. I do not protect them.
– Hercule Poirot
My conference is in Turin. I am the only Austrian to present, which means without me, the talks will be substandard.
– Gerhard Hardman
I have the advantage. I can only see the world as it should be so the imperfections stand out.
– Hercule Poirot
The best things on the train are not food. There’s something about a tangle of strangers pressed together for days on end, with nothing in common but the need to go from one place to another, then never see each other again. Boredom plus anonymity plus a constant gentle rocking.
– Bouc
With your hobbies, you will never amount to anything.
– Hercule Poirot
God, I hope so.
– Bouc
Ah, Mrs Hubbard, I’m sorry to have kept you. You have a head full of steam and a mouth full of words.
– Hercule Poirot
You’re goddamn right, I do.
– Caroline Hubbard
To a man with a hammer, every problem is a nail. You live crime. You see evil every day.
– Miss Mary Debenham
Not so. I see enough crime to know that the criminal act is the anomaly. I believe it takes a fracture of the soul to murder another human being.
– Hercule Poirot