Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

Well, Mr. Holmes, what are we to do with that fact?" "To remember it--to docket it. We may come on something later which will bear upon it.

Of these, one, the Lone Star, instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to one of the states of the Union." "Texas, I think." "I was not and am not sure which;

tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction. Three times a day for many months

We ran round, and there lay the unfortunate rider. He was a tall man, full-bearded, with spectacles, one glass of which had been knocked out. The cause of his death was a frightful blow upon the head, which had crushed in part of his skull. That he could have gone on after receiving such an injury said much for the vitality and courage of the man. He wore shoes, but no socks, and his open coat disclosed a nightshirt beneath it. It was undoubtedly the German master.

into the grounds Sherlock Holmes was on the roof, and I could see him like an enormous glow-worm crawling very slowly along the ridge. I lost sight of him behind a stack

em geral você subestimou suas próprias aptidões. É possível que você não seja em si mesmo luminoso, mas é um condutor de luz. Algumas pessoas, sem possuir gênio, têm o notável poder de estimulá-lo.

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

heard the creature

Use your powers! Go to the scene of the crime! See the people concerned! Leave no stone unturned! In all your career you have never had so great a chance of serving your country.

You have all the cleverness which makes a successful man. Have you the tact?

what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street.

Apa gunanya memiliki kemampuan, Dokter, kalau tak ada tempat untuk melampiaskannya?

YaÅŸad???m sürece iyi ÅŸeyler de oldu, kötü ÅŸeyler de, ama olan olmuÅŸ deyip boÅŸ vermeyi öÄŸrendim.

It was one of my friend's most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.

My mind is like a crowded box-room with packets of all sorts stowed away therein—so many that I may well have but a vague perception of what was there.

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!

There! there!" said Holmes, soothing, patting him upon the shoulder. "It was too bad to spring it on you like this, but Watson here will tell you that I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

You don't mind breaking the law?" "Not in the least." "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Not in a good cause.

I'm a frontiersman from the extreme edge of the Knowable, and I feel quite out of place when I leave my study and come into touch with all you great, rough, hulking creatures.

It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage.

Wir sind gewohnt das die Menschen verhoehnen was sie nicht verstehen.

We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street

Lestrade had learned by more experiences than he would care to acknowledge that that brain could cut through that which was impenetrable to him.