“You have an excellent heart, my friend — but your grey cells are in a deplorable condition.”
Hercule Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)
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“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”
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President of France Émile Loubet telegraph to Mrs. McKinley. The Authentic Life of President McKinley, page 398.
“The deplorable condition of many of our people”
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: The deplorable condition of many of our people on whom much money has been spent is mainly owing to their wretched education, during which they have tasted of many things, but have relished nothing, learned nothing well, and have been turned out with the unhappy conceit in their heads that they have been educated, because they think that they have learned something.
By Still Waters (1906)
“But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart”
"Foolish Heart"
Song lyrics, (1989)
Hercule Poirot
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
“I have seemed cold to my friends, but it was not in my heart.”
Source: Comment during final illness, as recalled by his nephew George W. E. Russell in Prime Ministers and Some Others, 1918, p. 24
“Your nose hair… which is grey… is in my eye.”
On how to hurt the ones you really love.
Like, Totally (2006)
Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)