Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Cells Quotes, Years Quotes

Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

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Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

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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.

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It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

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“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

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What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

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You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

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A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

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Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

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Violence recoils on the violent.

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When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

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Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

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Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

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