Mere Thingness

  • HASTINGS: Why don't you get yourself some turned down collars, Poirot? They're much more the thing, you know.
  • POIROT: 'The thing', Hastings? You think Poirot concerns himself with mere thingness?
  • HASTINGS: Oh, no.
  • POIROT: Non!
  • HASTINGS: I see.
  • POIROT: The turned down collar is the first sign of decay of the grey cells!

I take it that isn't a good thing

  • JAPP: What a stuffed fish! ... No! A BOILED OWL!

Jolly Good Night for a Murder

  • HASTINGS: I tell you what, though, what a jolly good night for a murder, eh? If someone wanted to kill anybody, nobody would know if it was a gunshot or a firework.
  • POIROT: But not so good, my friend, if your chosen method is strangulation.
  • HASTINGS: No. That's true. No. No.
  • JAPP: Or poisoning, come to that.
  • HASTINGS: Yes. ... You're pulling my leg!
  • POIROT: Yes, Hastings, we pull ever so gently the leg.

Golfing With Foreigners, by Captain Arthur Hastings.

A celebration of the ongoing series Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989-?; IMDb), starring the incomparable David Suchet as M Poirot as well as Hugh Fraser (Captain Hastings), Philip Jackson (Inspector Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Lemon), and a star-studded guest cast, against a backdrop of beautiful 1930s sets and costumes.