Joseph Finsbury: [carrying on a one-sided conversation with the Bournemouth Strangler] Ahh, the avocational activities of man are many and varied. Some demand skill - yours for instance! Carpentry... the playing of games with balls of various sizes! - Ralph Richardson in The Wrong Box (1966)

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Joseph Finsbury: [riding with the Hackett funeral party] It is, as you know, a statistical fact that in London one person dies every twenty-five seconds - which means that it is extremely probable that one of us may not even live to arrive at the ceremony! - Ralph Richardson in The Wrong Box (1966)

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Morris Finsbury: I collect eggs, Doctor. Doctor Pratt: Eggs, yes. Oh, I enjoy an egg myself, yes. They don't make good pets, though; you can never get them in at night. - Peter Sellers in The Wrong Box (1966)

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Morris Finsbury: I was wondering - do you by any chance happen to have any - uh - death certificates? Doctor Pratt: Do I happen to have any death certificates? What a monstrous thing, sir - what a monstrous thing to say to a member of the medical profession! Do you realize the enormity of what you have just said? Morris Finsbury: Yes. Do you have any death certificates? Doctor Pratt: How many do you want? - Peter Sellers in The Wrong Box (1966)

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Michael Finsbury: [examining a Classical Greek statue] Is it a fraud, Peacock? Peacock: Life is a fraud, Master Michael. - Wilfrid Lawson in The Wrong Box (1966)

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Peacock: [a grand piano jammed in a doorway] You know what that is? That is stuck. That is what that is. - Wilfrid Lawson in The Wrong Box (1966)

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Doctor Pratt: Well, it'll cost you five shillings. Morris Finsbury: Price is no object. Doctor Pratt: Right. Ten shillings, then. Payable in advance. - Peter Sellers in The Wrong Box (1966)

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[Aboard a train engine after a wreck] First Driver: Fred? Stoker: Yeah? First Driver: We haven't heard the last of this. - John Junkin in The Wrong Box (1966)

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[Recounting the railway accident] Joseph Finsbury: I was in the water closet of the Bournemouth express when it quite unaccountably exploded, thereby extensively damaging the rest of the train. I can't really think that I was to blame, although at the time I was smoking. - Ralph Richardson in The Wrong Box (1966)

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[the doctor, owner of dozens of cats, is coughing] Doctor Pratt: I'm all right; it's just a fur ball; it's nothing. Strangely, I haven't had fur for a fortnight. - Peter Sellers in The Wrong Box (1966)

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