Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin," he observed. "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.

The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish.

Holmes smiled, and clapped Lestrade upon the shoulder. "Instead of being ruined, my good sir, you will find that

which he was evidently setting upon himself had suddenly and utterly burst asunder. Holmes and I glanced at each other, and Hall Pycroft

mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that it means?" "I have no data yet. It is a capital

Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.

Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business

Tan peligroso es quitarle su cachorro a un tigre como arrebatarle a una mujer una ilusión».

Where's your warrant?" asked McGinty. "By Gar! a man might as well live in Russia as in Vermissa while folk like you are running the police. It's a capitalist outrage, and you'll hear more of it, I reckon.

when a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it.

uno debe amueblar el pequeño ático de su cerebro con todo lo que es probable que vaya a utilizar, y que el resto puede dejarlo guardado en el desván de la biblioteca, de donde puede sacarlo si lo necesita.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and

landau with their steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to me, and Godfrey Norton

I repeat that there is no practical joke here, but that we are investigating a serious crime." A vague thrill ran through me as I listened to my companion's words and saw the stern gravity which had hardened his features. This brutal preliminary seemed to shadow forth some strange and inexplicable horror in the background.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

See the value of imagination. It is the one quality which Inspector Gregory lacks. We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Let us proceed.

The supreme gift of an artist is the knowledge of when to stop.

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

they were of much the same stock, and their creeds could only be distinguished by their varying degrees of bigotry and intolerance.

That will do," cried Holmes. "What became of him?

Well, there was one thing which very soon struck me, and that was that the soldiers used always to lose and the civilians to win. Mind, I don't say there was anything unfair, but so it was.

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your co-operation. I shall be delighted. You don't mind breaking the law? Not in the least. Nor running a chance of arrest? Not in a good cause. Oh, the cause is excellent! Then I am your man. I was sure that I might rely on you.

one is a punishment and the other is a misfortune

I went downstairs and carried the dog upstair in my arms. It's laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end. Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence. I placed it upon a cushion on the rug.