- Inspector Japp: Poirot - buzz off like a good chap, will you? I've got bigger fish to fry.
- Hercule Poirot: In a good bouillabaisse the little fish are often tastier than the big ones.
- Inspector Japp: What are you talking about?
- Hercule Poirot: Add poison, however, and the whole soup is polluted. Then the size of the fish are immaterial.
- Inspector Japp: What's fish got to do with it?
- Hercule Poirot: It was your own metaphor; I didn't bring the fish...
- Inspector Japp: I didn't either!
- Hercule Poirot: Stop fish then! Let's leave it out!
- Hercule Poirot: Do I spend much time in Belgium? No, because there is so little crime. You know that I'm very patriotic. I believe in Belgium very profoundly, but crime is practically nonexistent.