- Mr. Sherlock Holmes QuotesⅢ
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. |
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth. | |
“If I could be assured of your destruction, I would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.” | |
“I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by no means a nervous man. At the same time, it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.” |
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“Come, Watson, come!” he cried. “The game is afoot.” | |
The future was our fate. The present was our own. | |
“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.” | |
"It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn. | |
"No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." |
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your presence may be of assistance to me. 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. |
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. |
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If I have set it down it is because that which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed. | |
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star. “No possible question about the bona fides this time,” said he, in answer, perhaps, to some little gleam of amusement in my eyes. |
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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home. | |
"From a drop of water," said the writer, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, Arthur Conan Doyle |