Do you realise how much trouble you're in?" "Perhaps I'll have some Weetabix after all.

We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.

"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!" "Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight." "What?" "I set fire to the boat." "But we're on the boat!" "I know.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.