Arthur Conan Doyle: Frasi in inglese (pagina 7)

“So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.”

“Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”

“His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”

“We can but try.”

“… while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”

“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”

“Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.”

“It is more than possible; it is probable.”

“There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.”

“I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.”

“Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?”

“Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.”

“It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”

“Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (…)”

“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”

“There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.”

“I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.”

“Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.”

“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.”