Subject: Habits
Quote: “But can you figure to yourself, monsieur, that a man may work towards a certain object, may labor and toil to attain a certain kind of leisure and occupation, and then find that, after all, he yearns for the old busy days, and the old occupations that he thought himself so glad to leave?… The chains of habit. We work to attain an object, and the object gained, we find that what we miss is the daily toil.”
Character: M. Hercule Poirot
Chapter/Story: 3—The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows
Book Title/Copyright: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926
Quote: “But can you figure to yourself, monsieur, that a man may work towards a certain object, may labor and toil to attain a certain kind of leisure and occupation, and then find that, after all, he yearns for the old busy days, and the old occupations that he thought himself so glad to leave?… The chains of habit. We work to attain an object, and the object gained, we find that what we miss is the daily toil.”
Character: M. Hercule Poirot
Chapter/Story: 3—The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows
Book Title/Copyright: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926
Subject: Successful Habits
Quote: “I attribute my success entirely to my habits of early rising, frugal living, and methodical habits.”
Character: Sir Oswald Coote
Chapter/Story: 1—On Early Rising
Book Title/Copyright: The Seven Dials Mystery, 1929
Subject: Murder, as Habit
Quote: “There are things that my profession has taught me. And one of these things, the most terrible thing is this: Murder is a habit….”
Character: M. Hercule Poirot
Chapter/Story: 17 – The Stain by the Washstand
Book Title/Copyright: Murder in Mesopotamia, 1935
Quote: “I attribute my success entirely to my habits of early rising, frugal living, and methodical habits.”
Character: Sir Oswald Coote
Chapter/Story: 1—On Early Rising
Book Title/Copyright: The Seven Dials Mystery, 1929
Subject: Murder, as Habit
Quote: “There are things that my profession has taught me. And one of these things, the most terrible thing is this: Murder is a habit….”
Character: M. Hercule Poirot
Chapter/Story: 17 – The Stain by the Washstand
Book Title/Copyright: Murder in Mesopotamia, 1935
