The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.

The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,’ he said. ‘The rich cannot afford to be.

The criminal mind is perverted and convoluted but almost invariably unimaginative,’he said as Molly came out in a fluster