Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

And yet it was one thing to laugh about it in London, and it is another to stand out here in the darkness of the moor and to hear such a cry as that.

nunca as deixar pensar que suas informações podem ter a menor importância para você. Se você fizer isso, eles vão se calar instantaneamente como uma ostra. Se você os ouvir sob protesto, por assim dizer, é muito provável que você consiga o que deseja .

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. He

I don't know what to do and my whole life seems to have gone to pieces.

of the Scotland Yarders," my friend remarked; "he

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.

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sat in the window with the volume in my hand, but my thoughts were far from the daring speculations of the writer. My mind ran upon our late visitor – her smiles, the deep rich tones of her voice, the strange mystery which overhung her life. If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now – a sweet

With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.

That is very helpful, Mr. Holmes.

le conspirateur le plus assuré de réussir est celui qui conspire tout seul.

Ciò che è noto racchiude in sé meno terrore di ciò che è soltanto sussurrato e fantasticato

There is an appalling directness about your questions, Watson, said Holmes, shaking his pipe at me. They come at me like bullets.

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise.

At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only I can stop a disastrous scandal.

was half-past five before Holmes returned. He was bright, eager, and in excellent spirits, a mood which in his case alternated with fits of the blackest depression. 'There is no great mystery in this matter,' he said, taking the cup of tea which I had poured out for

Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same. S.H.

I ejaculated after I had twice read over the extraordinary announcement. Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair

out of their depths – which, by the way, is their normal state

Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?' 'What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored, you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?' 'For my education, Holmes.' 'Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.

I play the game for the game's own sake

He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.