Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
fate world way
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
silly character strange
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
life men mind
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
business names people
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
horse past ears
What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.
waiting heroism done
There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
holmes watson ifs
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
nature humorous sarcasm
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
holmes remains deductions
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.
humorous eye sarcasm
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.
men years holmes
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
acting way best-way
The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
brain racing pieces
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
giving mind rebel
My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!