Arthur Conan Doyle: Frasi in inglese

Arthur Conan Doyle era poeta, scrittore, medico. Frasi in inglese.
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“This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle libro Le avventure di Sherlock Holmes

Origine: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.”

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“One must wait till it comes.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle libro The Lost World

Origine: The Lost World

“It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle libro Il mastino dei Baskerville

Origine: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle libro Le avventure di Sherlock Holmes

Origine: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle libro Uno studio in rosso

Origine: A Study in Scarlet

“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle libro Uno studio in rosso

Origine: A Study in Scarlet

“It 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?”

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“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle libro The Adventure of the Naval Treaty

Origine: The Naval Treaty

“It is easy to be wise after the event.”

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Origine: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.”

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“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.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle libro Le memorie di Sherlock Holmes

Origine: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“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 instincts of beasts.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle libro The Stark Munro Letters

The Stark Munro Letters (1894)

“Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?"

[Sherlock Holmes on his. ]”

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Arthur Conan Doyle libro The Adventure of the Dying Detective

Origine: The Adventure of the Dying Detective

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle libro The Stark Munro Letters

The Stark Munro Letters (1894)