872 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit - Nema neugodnije budale od one koja ima nešto duha.

«Nada resulta más engañoso que un hecho evidente», Sherlock Holmes.

Have you read Gaboriau’s works?” I asked.“Does Lecoq come up to your idea of a detective?”Sherlock Holmes sniffed sardonically. “Lecoqwas a miserable bungler,” he said, in an angryvoice; “he had only one thing to recommend him, and that was his energy. That book made me positively ill. The question was how to identify an unknown prisoner. I could have done it in twenty four hours. Lecoq took six months or so. It might be made a text-book for detectives to teach them what to avoid.

But you, Holmes-you have changed very little-save for that horrible goatee.""These are the sacrifices one makes for one's country, Watson," said Holmes, pulling at his little tuft. "To-morrow it will be but a dreadful memory.

Las cosas mas raras y singulares no se presentan con mucha frecuencia unidas a los crimines grandes, sino a los pequeños.

La vida es infinitamente mas extraña que todo cuanto la mente del hombre podria inventar.

Come at once if convenient- if inconvenient come all the same.- S. H.

Suddenly the dreamer disappeared, and Holmes, the man of action, sprang from his chair.

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible,