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.”

“So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.”

“Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”

“His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”

“We can but try.”

“… while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”

“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”

“Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.”

“It is more than possible; it is probable.”

“There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.”

“I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.”

“Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?”

“Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.”

“It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”

“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. (…)”

“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”

“There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.”

“I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.”

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

“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.”

“This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”

“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.”

“One must wait till it comes.”

“I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.”

“It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.”

“He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.”

“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”

“Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.”

“It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.”

“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.”