It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.