Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

lethargy which springs from despair.

All knowledge comes useful to the detective," remarked Holmes.

Casi todo el mundo, ante una sucesión de hechos, acertará a colegir qué se sigue de ellos... Los distintos acontecimientos son percibidos por la inteligencia, en la que, ya organizados, apuntan a un resultado. A partir de éste, sin embargo, pocas gentes saben recorrer el camino contrario, es decir, el de los pasos cuya sucesión condujo al punto final. A semejante virtud deductiva llamo razonar hacia atrás o analíticamente

walking calendar of crime

Let me indicate a possible line of thought. It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

El operario hábil selecciona con sumo cuidado el contenido de ese vano disponible que es su cabeza. Sólo de herramientas útiles se compondrá su arsenal, pero éstas serán abundantes y estarán en perfecto estado.

Standing in the doorway and glancing round me, I had a general impression of extraordinary comfort and elegance combined with an atmosphere of masculine virility.

A gang of burglars acting in the country might be expected to vary the scene of their operations, and not to crack two cribs in the same district within a few days.

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

His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer.

Surely the game is hardly worth the candle.

If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow—misery.

Nichts ist trügerischer als eine offenkundige Tatsache.

One other thing, Lestrade," he added, turning round at the door: " 'Rache,' is the German for 'revenge'; so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel." With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals open mouthed behind him.

Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.

I'm like an old golf-ball—I've had all the white paint knocked off me long ago. Life can whack me about now, and it can't leave a mark. But a sportin' risk, young fellah, that's the salt of existence.

In questo nostro mondo non conta quel che si fa», disse amaramente il mio amico. «Importa più quel che si riesce a far credere alla gene di aver fatto. Ma lasciamo stare.»

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. Never mind," he continued, more brightly, after a pause.

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

Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled

But is it coincidence? Are there not subtle forces at work of which we know little?

Someone in a novel, was he not? I don't take much stock of detectives in novels--chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them.