Conan Doyle idézet

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„Hatalmas hiba elméletet alkotni, mielőtt valakinek adatai lennének. Érthetetlenül az ember a tényeket az elméleteknek megfelelően kezdi el csavarni, az helyett, hogy az élméletet igazítaná a tényekhez.”

„Nagyszerű dolog az, ha kevés nagyon jó könyvvel kezdjük az életet, amelyek csak miéink.”

„Amit ebben a világban csinálsz, annak nincs következménye. A kérdés az, hogy mit tehetsz azért, hogy az emberek elhiggyék, hogy valamit csináltál?”

„A könyvek iránti szeretet az Isten legkedvesebb ajándéka.”

„A világ tele van nyilvánvaló dolgokkal, amelyeket soha senki nem vesz észre.”

„Sherlock Holmes általában későn kelt.”

„Látsz, de nem figyelsz.”

„Régóta axiómám, hogy a kis dolgok végtelenül a legfontosabbak.”

„A közönség nem ismer magasabb értéket; de a tehetség azonnal felismeri a zsenit.”

„Az oktatás soha nem ér véget, Watson. Az oktatás oly leckék sorozata, amelyekből az utolsó a legnagyobb.”

„Nagy ajándéka van a csendre, Watson. Ez meglehetősen felbecsülhetetlenné teszi társként.”

„Watson. Jöjjön azonnal, ha megfelel. Ha nem, akkor is jöjjön.”

„"Kiváló!" Felkiáltottam. "Átlagos", mondta ő.”

„A nevem Sherlock Holmes. Az a dolgom, hogy tudjam, amit mások nem tudnak.”

„Ha kizártuk a lehetetlent, bármi marad, bármennyire is valószínűtlen, annak kell lennie az igazságnak.”

„Senki sem terheli az elméjét apróságokkal, hacsak nincs rá valami nagyon jó oka.”

“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”

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

“I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.”

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”

“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”

“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”

“Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”

“I followed you.'

I saw no one.'

That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.”

“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?”

“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”

“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”

“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.”

“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”

“No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes”

“Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.”

“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”

“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”

“Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind."
"Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.”

“I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.”

“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 know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.”

“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”

“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.”

“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.”

“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”

“Anything is better than stagnation.”