"The Valley of Fear" Quotes

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime.

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.

You are a wronged woman, and shall have justice.

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.