Arthur Conan Doyle: His Words
By Daniel Coenn
First Edition
Copyright © 2014 by Daniel Coenn
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Arthur Conan Doyle: His Words
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Quotes
“Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
“Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.”
“It is more than possible; it is probable.”
“Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
“Anything is better than stagnation.”
“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.”
“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”
“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”
“A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.”
“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.”
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction
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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG
Texte: Daniel Coenn
Bildmaterialien: Daniel Coenn
Lektorat: Blago Kirof
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 20.05.2014
ISBN: 978-3-7368-1324-3
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