Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
humorous sarcasm reason
I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.
humorous sarcasm age
I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.
tombstone steel blades
Steel True, Blade Straight.
men mind matter
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
childhood would-be generations
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.
thrown
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
satisfaction vengeance realizing
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
A change of work is the best rest.
real lying greatness
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
hands paper found
The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
taken wit
I have taken to living by my wits.
men better-man
I love and am loved by a better man than he.
community criminals fortunate
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
world spirit window
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.