"I didn't get where I am today by playing 'mothers and fathers'."
"I didn't get where I am today by looking a gift horse in the mouth. Or by going down with a sinking ship."
"I didn't get where I am today by drinking a liquid that's only been tested on pencils."
"I didn't get where I am today by everything smelling of a Bolivian unicyclist's jockstrap!"
"Proliferation is the thief of time"
"What the eye doesn't see is goose for the gander"
"There's no smoke without the worm turning"
"It's the early bird who catches the quick brown fox"
"No need to beat around the mulberry bush"
"Let's hope I'm not a fait accompli worse than death"
"Absence is better than a cure." Reggie: "Prevention makes the heart grow fonder."
"After all, the proof of the pudding is caviar to the general" (spoken by Reggie, not CJ)
"...a different kettle of fish out of water"
"The only good ringer's a dead ringer"
"...the pot calling the kettle a silver lining"
These quotes come from Wikiquote's The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.