There are strange red depths in the soul of the most commonplace man. I am tenderhearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare. Yet the blood lust was o...
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instanc...
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
The little things are infinitely the most important.
We all have neglected opportunities to deplore.
Watson: When do we start?
Now, Watson, said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. You’ll come with me, won’t you?If I can be of use.Oh,...
El mundo está lleno de cosas obvias, que nadie por casualidad alguna vez observa.
By George! cried the inspector. How did you ever see that?Because I looked for it.
İnsan ne tuhaf bir yaratıktır. Cinayetle haşır neşir, kim bilir kaç kez bir ailenin babasının, gözü yaşlı eşi ya da çaresiz çocukları için hiçbir pişmanlık yahut acıma duygusu hissetmeden, hiçbir kişi...
Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
You see, but you do not observe.
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt
Ahora que me ha puesto usted al corriente, haré lo posible por olvidarlo
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial...
Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson, said Holmes in a reminiscent voice. It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet pr...
I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’‘Not in the least,’ I answered in a...
I followed you.'I saw no one.'That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.