“If! If! You can get 'round anything with 'if'.”

“Seribu Topan BadaiKapten Haddock”

“Miserable blundering barbequed blister! •Pithecanthropic pickpocket •Ten thousand thundering typhoons! •Slubberdegullions! •Fancy-dress Fatima! •Bath-tub Admiral! ~ Captain Haddock”

“Eureka .. Eureka!”

“It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!”

“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”

“Thomson: "Just our luck! The one time we manage to catch the culprits they turn out to be innocent! It's really too bad of them!"Thompson: "You'd think they'd done it on purpose!”