Quotes from Arthur Conan Doyle

He has spoiled my night's reading, and that's reason enough, if there were no other, why I should steer clear of him in the future.

Well, perhaps, after all, it is of some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien—l'oeuvre c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to Georges Sand.

Every fresh advance which we make only reveals a fresh ridge beyond. And yet we have surely made some appreciable progress.

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you

I may be on the side of the Angels ,but don't think for one second that I am one of them.

My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Frequently.

How often?" "Well, some hundreds of times." "Then how many are there?" "How many? I don't know." "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.

Siempre hay que buscar una posible alternativa y estar preparado para ella.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world." THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram.

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. What do you deduce from it?

It moved in the shadow of the hedge, silently and furtively, a dark, crouching figure, dimly visible against the black background. Even as he gazed back at it, it had lessened its distance by twenty paces, and was fast closing upon him. Out of the darkness he had a glimpse of a scraggy neck, and of two eyes that will ever haunt him in his dreams.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he answered, laughing.

actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

The question now was, who was the man, and who was it brought him the coronet? "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

La amabilidad de ciertas personas es más mortífera que la violencia de gentes más rudas.

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

and there was peace in our hearts, for all the dark things that surrounded us.

I ain't afraid of anything on this side of the grave.

His face gets between me and my sleep.

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