Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.

Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it

no hay objeto de estudio más digno del hombre que el hombre mismo».

Excellent! I cried. Elementary, said he. It

The proper study of mankind is man, you know.' 'You must study him, then

I believe you are a man of your word, and a white man, and I'll tell you the whole story.

Se muoio domani, cosa abbastanza probabile, morirò sapendo che la mia missione in questo mondo è stata assolta, e bene. Sono morti per mano mia. Non ho altre speranze o desideri.

Listen as one may, there is no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness; nothing but silence — complete and heart-subduing silence.

capacity would. He would probably consider that to send back the launch or to keep it at a wharf would make pursuit easy if the police did happen to get on his track. How, then, could he conceal the launch and yet have her at hand when wanted? I wondered

I endeavoured to cheer and amuse her by reminiscences of my adventures in Afghanistan; but, to tell the truth, I was myself so excited at our situation, and so curious as to our destination, that my stories were slightly involved. To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote as to how a musket looked into my tent at the dead of night, and how I fired a double-barrelled tiger cub at it.

my thoughts were far from the daring speculations of the writer.

Only once did McMurdo see him, a sly, little gray-haired rat of a man, with a slinking gait and a sidelong glance which was charged with malice.

Dear me! Mr. Holmes, why, you are even a quicker smoker than I am myself." Holmes smiled. "I am a connoisseur," said he, taking another cigarette from the box — his fourth

The colonel still stared at my friend like a man in a trance. You cunning, cunning fiend! was all that he could say.

Are you in the police yourself?" "No." "What business is it of yours, then?" "It's every man's business to see justice done.

seemed to be one of those senseless acts of Hooliganism which occur from time to time

As the sun rose slowly above the eastern horizon, the caps of the great mountains lit up one after the other, like lamps at a festival, until they were all ruddy and glowing.

My friend, who loved above all things precision and concentration of thought, resented anything which distracted his attention from the matter in hand. And yet, without a harshness which was foreign to his nature, it was impossible to refuse to listen to the story of the young and beautiful woman

Very curious, and the story that hangs round it will strike you as being more curious still. These relics have a history then? So much so that they are history.

nondescript individuals put in an appearance, Sherlock Holmes

Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought there were so many in the whole country as were brought together by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they were — straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.

In England the emerald-green kind is probably the commonest, I have seen it also in the woods of France and Belgium, in far-away Massachusetts, and on the banks of the Niagara River.

No data yet, he answered. It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

It would cease to be a danger if we could define it