“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.” Arthur Conan Doyle More Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle More Quotes From Arthur Conan Doyle In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved. Arthur Conan Doyle spring animal night Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still. Arthur Conan Doyle cat three animal The fair sex is your department. Arthur Conan Doyle dr-watson department sex Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson. Arthur Conan Doyle drs mind may So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action. Arthur Conan Doyle spirit action spring 'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law. Arthur Conan Doyle criminals law play I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. Arthur Conan Doyle nails issues boots It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital. Arthur Conan Doyle able numbers art Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle holmes simplicity drs There is nothing like first-hand evidence. Arthur Conan Doyle evidence hands firsts Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. Arthur Conan Doyle unemotional cold should Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs. Arthur Conan Doyle suspicion proof looks If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson. Arthur Conan Doyle drs may knowledge Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know. Arthur Conan Doyle green-fields may men It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame. Arthur Conan Doyle exhausted purpose struggle The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair. Arthur Conan Doyle weak-man strong men He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman. Arthur Conan Doyle would-be character book It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect. Arthur Conan Doyle simplicity simple book And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents. Arthur Conan Doyle littles life interesting It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror! Arthur Conan Doyle spring beautiful memories
