“Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.”

“I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?""That is so.""Pity. Pity. You've missed a lot. Everyone should be made to study the classics, if I had my way."Poirot shrugged his shoulders."Eh bien, I have got on very well without them.""Got on! Got on? It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view all together. The classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success, like a modern correspondence course! It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make. Take yourself now, you're getting on, you'll be wanting to get out of things, to take things easy--what are you going to do then with your leisure hours?”

“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”

“Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.”

“Is that all you've got? A few tricks and quick feet? That's no way to enforce your bold tongue!”

“If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success”