Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as

Well, well," said he, at last. "It is, of course, possible that a cunning man might change the tires of his bicycle in order to leave unfamiliar tracks. A criminal who was capable of such a thought is a man whom I should be proud to do business with.

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit - Nema neugodnije budale od one koja ima nešto duha.

They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.

Tut, tut, we have solved some worse problems. At least we have plenty of material, if we can only use it.

Existe entre los hechos delictivos un gran parecido de familia, y si usted se sabe por completo y en detalle un millar de casos, pocas veces deja de poner en claro el mil uno.

There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental.

No me cabe duda que usted cree hacerme una lisonja comparándome con Dupin. Pero en mi opinión, Dupin era un hombre que valía muy poco. […] Sin duda, poseía algo de genio analítico; pero no era, en modo alguno, un fenómeno, según parece imaginárselo Poe.

learned something in that schoolroom of sorrow where our earthly lessons are taught.

As we approached the forbidding and squalid inn, with the sign of a game-cock above the door, Holmes gave a sudden groan, and clutched me by the shoulder to save himself from falling. He had had one of those violent strains of the ankle which leave a man helpless.

Come, Watson, come! he cried. The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!

Then my friend's wiry arms were round me, and he was leading me to a chair.

The man pervades London, and no one has heard of him. That's what puts him on a pinnacle in the records of crime.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains

Se necesita cierta dósis de selección y de discreción al exhibir un efecto realista.

When we were left alone in the stone-flagged kitchen, it was astonishing how rapidly that sprained ankle recovered.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion, bitterly. "The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

From the point of view of the criminal expert," said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.

It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August - the most terrible August in the history of the world.

Ya sabe que el prestidigitador desmerece en cuanto explica su truco; si yo le muestro a usted una parte excesiva de mis métodos de trabajo llegará a la conclusión de que, a fin de cuentas, soy un personaje corriente.

right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to conceal it?" "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Doyle