Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.