- Once or twice in my career, I feel that I have done more real harm by my
discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned
caution, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own
conscience.(ABBE)
- After all Watson, I am not retained by the police to supply their
deficiencies. (BLUE)
- I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just possible that I am
saving a soul. (BLUE)
- It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
(BRUC)
- My dear fellow, you shall keep watch in the street. I'll do the criminal
part. (BRUC)
- But, if you'll hand it over - well, I'll compound a felony.(MAZA)
- I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual. (3GAB)
- I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would
have made a highly efficient criminal. This is the chance of my lifetime in
that direction. (CHAS)
- Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and
originality. (COPP)
- My sympathies are with the criminals rather than with the victim.(CHAS)
- I think that there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which
therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.(CHAS)
- It is not for me, my dear Watson, to stand in the way of the official
police force. I leave them all the evidence which I found. (DEVI)
- In over a thousand cases I am not aware that I have ever used my powers
upon the wrong side. (FINA)
- He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. (FINA)
- A complex mind. All great criminals have that. (ILLU)
- From the point of view of the criminal expert, London has become a
singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor
Moriarty. (NORW)
- A criminal who was capable of such a thought is a man whom I should be proud
to do business with. (PRIO)
- When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other
crime which may spring from it. (PRIO)
- He was still living under the shield of British law, and I have no doubt,
inspector, that you will see that, though that shield may fail to guard, the
sword of justice is still there to avenge. (RESI)
- There being no fear of interruption I proceded to burgle the house. Burglary
has always been an alternative profession, had I cared to adopt it, and I have
little doubt that I should have come to the front. (RETI)
- My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.
(SHOS)
- A clever counsel would tear it all to rags.(SILV)
- I will represent the official police until their arrival. (SOLI)
- Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official detective
force.(SPEC)
- When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and
he has knowledge.(SPEC)
- There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having
brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name
famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of
study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And
what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling
villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can
see through it.(STUD)
- If criminals would always schedule their movements like railway trains, it
would certainly be more convenient for all of us.(VALL)
- The English law is in the main a just law. (VALL)
- Legally, we are putting ourselves hopelessly in the wrong, but I think that
it is worth it. (YELL)
- I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers
go. (3GAB)
- I should much prefer that you called in the aid of the police.(3STU)
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