Arthur Conan Doyle: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)

“What one man can invent, another can discover.”

“I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.”

“It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.”

“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”

“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.”

“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”

“If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.”

“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”

“There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.”

“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”

“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”

“My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!”

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”

“The game is afoot.”

“There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.”

“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”