Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There

We can't do these things in the force, Mr. Holmes," said he. "No wonder you get results that are beyond us. But some of these days you'll go too far, and you'll find yourself and your friend in trouble." "For England, home and beauty—eh, Watson? Martyrs on the altar of our country.

I know you, you scoundrel! I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled. "Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Holmes chuckled heartily.

I don't think you need alarm yourself," said I. "I have usually found that there was method in his madness." "Some folks might say there was madness in his method," muttered the Inspector.

Round-headed, he muttered. Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?

The conduct of the criminal investigation has been left in the experienced hands of Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, who is following up the clues with his accustomed energy and sagacity.

Un estudio en escarlata, ¿eh? ¿Por qué no hemos de emplear un poco el argot artístico? Nos encontramos con el hilo rojo del asesinato enzarzado en la madeja incolora de la vida, y nuestro deber consiste en desenmarañarlo, aislarlo y poner a la vista hasta la última pulgada.

In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him. The

A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

But how could you guess what the motive was?

That's what I should like to be,—envied for my man.

I am inclined to think said I. I should do so, Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but Ill admit that I was annoyed at the sardonic interruption. Really, Holmes, said I severely, you are a little trying at times.

How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness.

he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

We also have our diplomatic secrets

I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.

Todo viene en círculo. [...] La vieja rueda se vuelve, y el mismo discurso se repite. Todo ya ha sido hecho antes, y lo será de nuevo.

Mr. Holmes always knows whatever there is to know.

Man or woman?" I asked. "Oh, man, of course. No woman would ever send a reply-paid telegram. She would have come.

It's the Baker Street division of the detective police force... There's more work to be got out of one of those little beggars than out of a dozen of the force,' Holmes remarked. 'The mere sight of an official-looking person seals men's lips. These youngsters, however, go everywhere and hear everything. They are as sharp as needles, too; all they want is organization.

Dove non c'è immaginazione, non c'è orrore.

You are aware that I have some proficiency in the good old British sport of boxing.

He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together. "It is simplicity itself