Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

clings to any straw!

Outside the wind howled down Baker Street, while the rain beat fiercely against the windows. It was strange there, in the very depths of the town, with ten miles of man's handiwork on every side of us, to feel the iron grip of Nature, and to be conscious that to the huge elemental forces all London was no more than the molehills that dot the fields.

The public hisses at me, but I applaud myself in my own house and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest.

Digo ahora, como dije entonces, que toda persona debería tener en el ático de su cerebro el surtido de mobiliario que es probable que necesite, y que todo lo demás puede guardarlo en el desván de su biblioteca, donde puede echarle mano cuando tenga precisión de algo.

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 predominates the

Y qué va usted a hacer? ––pregunté. ––Fumar ––respondió––. Es un problema de tres pipas, así que le ruego que no me dirija la palabra durante cincuenta minutos.

To a great mind, nothing is little

Questo era il caso per il quale veniva dato un risultato, e tutto il resto bisognava trovarlo da soli.

If they cannot deny it, they will probably ignore it.

The confession of Herbert de Lernac, now lying under sentence of death at Marseilles, has thrown a light upon one of the most inexplicable crimes of the century — an incident which is, I believe, absolutely unprecedented in the criminal annals of any country.

You must admit that the whole conduct of the proceedings was intolerable, and that my righteous protest was more than justified. It is possible that when I threw the chairman's table at the President of the Psychic College I passed the bounds of decorum, but the provocation had been excessive.

No good can ever come of falsehood

No sound in history has ever equalled the cry of the injured Earth.

By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable.

Dogs don't make mistakes.

You are the stormy petrel of crime, Watson.

Svaka budala na?e još ve?u budalu od sebe koja joj se divi!

Of all ruins, that of a fine man is the saddest.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again.

It is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories. - The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

it was the ugliness of character, which is as attractive as beauty. His

Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

Intuitions are not to be ignored, they represent data processed to fast for the conscious mind to comprehend