Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
education mistake science
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
mistake lying special
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.
light may hounds
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
love-is emotional cold
But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
men cities mind
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.
two old-friends wish
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.
hands giving reassuring
I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson
men voice giving
All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad as it seems.” “Thank God for that!” “I’m a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me.” “What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I’ll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word.” “Good old Watson!(...)
thinking instinct our-future
We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
use institutions valuable
The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.
divorce writing infidelity
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
wall garden house
I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.
two four might
It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes
men natural-talent done
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.