John Thaw Quotes

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

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

I guess we have found the smoking pistol, haven’t we?

How did they know?.

Don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.

It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.

I love the whole mystery-detective genre - I love all of that.

I have this particular shoe with blood stains, marked all up sitting in my office. I always look at it everyday.

I'm very good at solving mysteries.

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

Find first, seek later.

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

In order to find, you must first search.

Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.