Colonel Arbuthnott Quotes in Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Colonel Arbuthnott: Miss Debenham is not a woman!

[long pause]

Colonel Arbuthnott: She is a lady.

Colonel Arbuthnott: Can you give me your solemn oath - as a foreigner?

Colonel Arbuthnott: He was interested in the future of India. A bit impractical - he thought the British ought to move out!

Colonel Arbuthnott: It's a USED peep cleaner!

Hercule Poirot: Tout de même, I must thank the pipe-smoking Colonel Arbuthnott for a remark which finally resolved all my confusions about this, uh, this extraordinary case. I prefer to set aside the fact that he denied ever having spoken to Colonel Armstrong in India, and yet he remembered in great detail the decorations which Colonel Armstrong had won years earlier in France. I prefer to remember his views on the British jury system:

Colonel Arbuthnott: [in a brief flashback] Trial by twelve good men and true... is a sound system.

Ferry conductor: Welcome aboard, Colonel Arbyoo... Arbyoo...

Colonel Arbuthnott: Arbuthnott!

Colonel Arbuthnott: Get your hands off Miss Debenham!

Hercule Poirot: I was not aware that I was keeping my hands *on* Miss Debenham!

Mary Debenham: [observing Poirot after he sneezed] What a funny little man!

Colonel Arbuthnott: Obviously a frog.