The spoken word and the written – there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the original meaning.
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
It’s like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
Even the most sober of us is liable to have his head turned by success.
When do you notice an individual murder least? When it is one of a series of related murders.
In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.
Words are only the outer clothing of ideas.
There is nothing so terrible as to live in an atmosphere of suspicion—to see eyes watching you and the love in them changing to fear—nothing so terrible as to suspect those near and dear to you—It is poisonous—a miasma.
No crime can be successful without luck!
In the midst of death we are in life.
If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.
