Quotes About Mystery

The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.

The world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, said that once you have eliminated all the possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.

Thule was sighted, but only from afar.

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "If I can be of use." "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

Watson: When do we start? Holmes: You are not coming. Watson: Then you are not going. I give you my word of honour - and I never broke it in my life - that I will take a cab straight to the police station and give you away unless you let me share this adventure with you.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male. Murder might be condoned or explained, and yet some smaller offense might rankle. -Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client

Well, Watson, what do you make of it?' Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation. 'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.' 'I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me', said he.

A large number merely strange

Como a las polillas, a todos nos gusta revolotear en torno a la luz.

I reached this one, said my friend, by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if we drive to Baker-street we shall just be in time for breakfast.

One night - it was in June, '89 - there came a ring to my bell, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn, and glances at the clock.

you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes

In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.

What... is the wind in that door?

What is beauty?) I think beauty is a reflection of the light of God. I can't give you a better definition than that. It's one of the ways in which we can come close to understanding the numinous mystery in which we have our being. (from NPR Interviews 1995 edited by Robert Siegel)