Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
classic easy excellent
Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.
boys details never-trust
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
views different may
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different
fate poison belts
The future was with Fate. The present was our own. ~ The Poison Belt
views clue point-of-view
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
consistency deception want
We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
lying wife inspire
Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.
kings war wells
He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.
spiritual real humanity
There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?
memories race ideas
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.
spring may source
Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.
hate passion choices
Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.
men blood law
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
holmes late
…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.