Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
thinking law drs
So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four
danger cubs holmes
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
afghanistan perceive has-beens
You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
boys details never-trust
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
fate poison belts
The future was with Fate. The present was our own. ~ The Poison Belt
passion picnics firsts
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
lying twilight heart
...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
cried inspectors
By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?" Because I looked for it.
stagnation
Anything is better than stagnation.
world needs ghost
The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
mother often-is imagination
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
statistics method holmes
You know my methods. Apply them.
running museums skulls
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
light giving people
Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.