I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes brain intellect
What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.
Arthur Conan DoyleIt has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés writing sherlock-holmes consistency facts accuracy details dramatic-effect
From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés love freedom sherlock-holmes sadness obsession slavery love-at-first-sight homes
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.
Arthur Conan DoyleEvery man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés stagnation
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
Arthur Conan DoyleSome people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés appearances
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.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés friendship
When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés treasure
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