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.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and.
I’m not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
As to the photograph, your client may rest in peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he.
But you have the nimble mind and quick fancy of youth, turning over from the thing that is half done to a further task beyond.
What a blind beetle I have been, not to draw my conclusion. And what is your conclusion? Only that it is a remarkable cow which walks, canters, and gallops.
I assure you that I little thought when I left my professional chair in London that it was for the purpose of heading a raid of savages upon a colony of anthropoid apes.
Yet upon that afternoon, whether it was the Beaune which I had taken with my lunch or the additional exasperation produced by the extreme deliberation of his manner, I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer.
If they have disappeared from the rest of the world it was assuredly on account of their own stupidity, which made it impossible for them to adapt themselves to changing conditions.
I had always known that vengeance would be sweet, but I had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me.
Vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards.
You don’t mind breaking the law?” “Not in the least.” “Nor running a chance of arrest?” “Not in a good cause.
There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.
It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one’s dressing-gown.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.
His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.
The public hisses at me, but I applaud myself in my own house and simultaneously contemplate the money in my chest.
You are the stormy petrel of crime, Watson.
The instant he entered I saw by his face that he had not been successful. Amusement and chagrin seemed to be struggling for the mastery, until the former suddenly carried the day, and he burst into a hearty laugh.
He seems a very amiable person,” said Holmes, laughing. “I am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own.” As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again.