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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have...more

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

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All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence wh...more

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The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising...more

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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that...more