Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.

Parece que el saber que uno ha hecho todo lo posible, ayuda a enfrentarse con el peligro. No queda entonces otro recurso que el de esperar con calma el resultado.

Holmes rose from his chair. I am a rather busy man, Mr. Gibson, said he, and I have no time or taste for aimless conversations. I wish you good-morning.

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

The first object of a novelist, is to tell a tale. If he has no story to tell, what is he there for? Possibly he has something to say which is worth saying, but he should say it in another form.

Vienas svarbiausi? dalyk? - neleisti, kad žmogaus asmenin?s ypatyb?s tur?t? poveikio tavo sprendimams.

It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing-gown.

Ya le he explicado otras veces que en esta clase de casos lo extraordinario constituye antes que un estorbo, una fuente de indicios. La clave reside en razonar a la inversa, cosa, sea dicho de paso, tan útil como sencilla, y poquísimo practicada

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

We had risen to go, but there was something in the woman's voice which arrested Holmes's attention. He turned swiftly upon her. Your life is not your own, he said. Keep your hands off it. What use is it to anyone? How can you tell? The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.

Holmes glanced at me and raised his eyebrows sardonically. "With two such men as yourself and Lestrade upon the ground, there will not be much for a third party to find out," he said.

A veces encuentra algo- comentó Holmes, encogiéndose de hombros-. De cuando en cuando tiene algún chispaso de razón, il n'y a pas des sots si incomodes que ceux qui ont de l'ésprit! ( Los tontos que más molestan son los que tienen ingenio)

That seems to show that somebody knows more than we do upon the moor

The love-affair of Enid Challenger and Edward Malone is not of the slightest interest to the reader, for the simple reason that it is not of the slightest interest to the writer.

turned over a new leaf

Wolves or watch-dogs, it was hard to say from which the sheep had most to fear. The

The opinion of a clever man who has had no experience is really of less value than that of the man in the street who has actually been there.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one?

We must hurry up, for I want to go to Halle's concert to hear Norman Neruda this afternoon.

Sin la imaginación no existe el miedo.

Holmes glanced at me and raised his eyebrows sardonically. With two such men as yourself and Lestrade upon the ground, there will not be much for a third party to find out, he said.

Considero que el cerebro de cada cual es como una pequeña pieza vacía que vamos amueblando con elementos de nuestra elección.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.

His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.