Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

Este de ahora se halla envuelto en un misterio que actúa como estimulante de la imaginación; donde la imaginación está ausente no hay horror posible.

The truly inspired priest is the man or woman with the big brain.

How are you, Watson?" said he, cordially. "I should never have known you under that moustache

You mean the retired sergeant of Marines," said Sherlock Holmes.

Ah! Yo no soy más que un estudioso..., un soñador. No soy capaz de explicar las cosas prácticas de la vida.

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.

It is a curious thing that in whaling vessels the Church of England Prayer book is always employed, though there is never a member of that Church among officers or crew. Our men are all Roman Catholics or Presbyterians, the former predominating. Since a ritual is used which is foreign to both, neither can complain that the other is preferred to them, and they listen with all attention and devotion, so that the system has something to recommend it.

that my stories were slightly involved. To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote

You seem very qualified, sir, to express the negative one. At the same time I would repeat in my own person the words of Thackeray. He said to some objector: 'What you say is natural, but if you had seen what I have seen you might alter your opinion'. Perhaps sometime you will be able to look into the matter, for your high position in the scientific world would give your opinion great weight.

The sky may darken, and the clouds may gather, and again the day may come when Britain may have sore need of her children, on whatever shore of the sea they be found. Shall they not muster at her call?

with their blue flickering flames.

There lies the image of our past and of our future, cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?

My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long gray travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap.

Le mauvais goût méne au crime[

leader in the Times

Populus me sibilat at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca. (The public hisses at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest.)

I had always known that vengeance would be sweet, but I had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me.

You may have noticed how extremes call to each other, the spiritual to the animal, the caveman to the angel. You never saw a worse case than this.

Die Welt ist voller offensichtlicher Dinge, die niemand jemals beobachtet.

man was murdered, how was it done? asked the former. Poison, said Sherlock Holmes curtly, and strode off. 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

The furrows upon his brow had been cut a little deeper by Time's chisel.

When water is near and a weight is missing, it is not a very far-fetched supposition that something has been sunk in the water.

Mi cerebro es como un motor en marcha, que se destroza porque no esta embragado a la máquina para la que fue construido.

he was, I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding.