""It seems to me that this Jacob's Ladder is very steep, very difficult and damned dangerous!""

""Forsyth walked to a phone box himself to dial 999. He was alone when an ambulance got there. He claimed last night he was the driver - but he wasn't!""

""A fire can smoulder for hours before it... becomes a fire, so to speak.""

""A little genteel courtship, and then he decamps with every penny he can lay his hands on!""

""No, no, Mrs. Sutherland. I don't feel the same about human beings as I do about horses.""

""Funny, isn't it? They wear their hats - we take ours off!""

""There's no way we can get around the fact that the gun was fired - in the direction of another person!""

""All the same, would you not agree that he's got too much power? As a Fiscal, I mean.""