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.”

“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different”

“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”

“Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”

“The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

~ The Poison Belt”

“I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.”

“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.”

“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.”

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”

“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.”

“You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.”

“Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.”

“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”

“You know my methods. Apply them.”

“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”

“He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.”

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.”

“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.”

“Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.”

“The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.”

“It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.”

“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”

“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”

“To Sherlock Holmes she is alwayswoman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”

“I am lost without my Boswell.”

“The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”

“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”

“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.”

“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”

“I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.”