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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?” “The famous scientific criminal, as famous among...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My brain has always governed my heart" Sherlock Holmes
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes, that money is nothing to me in this case. You can burn it if it�...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two who had never seen each other before that day,...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson,
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I had,” said he, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dang...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins t...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and e...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky do...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, HOWEVER ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bac...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is easy to be wise after the event.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, ju...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE So swift, silent, and furtive were his movements, like those of a trained blood-hound picking out a ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Well, and there is the end of our little drama," I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in s...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you
care to try it?"
"No, indee...
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