Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
mistake writing what-matters
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
justice clean young
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
curiosity statistics detectives
You see, but you do not observe.
lessons lasts ends
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
rose lovely lovely-things
What a lovely thing a rose is!
life obvious-things world
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
brother night men
The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes.
sweet nature morning
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
education mistake math
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
brain appendix mere
I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
pain detective-work genius
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
silly adventure noble
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
believe heart bricks-and-mortar
I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.
humorous sarcasm names
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.