Hunted Down Quotes

“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”
― Charles Dickens, Hunted Down

“my first impression of those people, founded on face and manner alone, was invariably true. My mistake was in suffering them to come nearer to me and explain themselves away.”
― Charles Dickens, Hunted Down: the detective stories of Charles Dickens

“There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a man who is a calculating criminal, is, in any phase of his guilt, otherwise than true to himself, and perfectly consistent with his whole character. Such a man will outface murder, and will do it with hardihood and effrontery. It is a sort of fashion to express surprise that any notorious criminal, having such crime upon his conscience, can so brave it out. Do you think that if he had it on his conscience at all, or had a conscience to have it upon, he would have committed the crime?”
― Charles Dickens, Hunted Down