Arthur Conan Doyle: Frasi in inglese (pagina 5)

“I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.”

“Everything comes in circles. […] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.”

“You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.”

“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”

“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.”

“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.”

“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.”

“Anything is better than stagnation.”

“The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.”

“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different”

“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”

“Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”

“The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

~ The Poison Belt”

“I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.”

“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.”

“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.”

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.”

“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”