Arthur Conan Doyle citáty

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„Svet je plný nápadných vecí, ktoré si nikto ani náhodou nevšimne.“

„Vzdelanie nikdy nekončí, Watson. Je to séria lekcií, z ktorých najväčšia je tá posledná.“

„Láska k knihám patrí medzi najvyberanejšie dary bohov.“

„Vidíte, ale nepozorujete.“

„Volám sa Sherlock Holmes. Je mojou prácou vedieť, čo ostatní ľudia netušia.“

„Zástupcovia diabla môžu byť z mäsa a krvi, však?“

„Ak budem za 100 rokov známy iba ako človek, ktorý vynašiel Sherlocka Holmesa, považujem svoj život za zlyhanie.“

„Myšlienky človeka, ak majú interpretovať prírodu, musia byť rovnako veľkorysé ako príroda samotná.“

„Každý človek má svoje obmedzenia, pán Holmes, ale aspoň nás to lieči zo slabosti sebavedomia.“

„Je obrovskou chybou teoretizovať predtým, ako človek má dáta. Nepochybne, človek potom začne krútiť faktami tak, aby zapadli do teórií teóriám, namiesto toho, aby vytváral teórie, ktoré sú založené na faktoch.“

„Keď vylúčite nemožné, všetko, čo zostane, nech je akokoľvek nepravdepodobné, musí byť pravda.“

„Je skvelé začať život s malým počtom skutočne dobrých kníh, ktoré vlastníte.“

„Už je dlho mojou axiómou, že malé veci sú tie najdôležitejšie.“

„Priemernosť nepozná nič vyššieho ako samú seba, ale talent okamžite rozpozná génia.“

„To, čo robíte na tomto svete, nemá žiadny význam, čo sa týka dôsledkov. Otázkou je, čo môžete urobiť, aby ľudia uverili, že ste niečo urobili.“

„Máte veľký dar mlčať, Watson. To vás robí neoceniteľným spoločníkom.“

„Watson. Ak sa vám to hodí, príďte hneď. Ak vám to nevyhovuje, príďte aj tak.“

„Výborne!" zvolal som. "Priemerné," povedal on.“

„Žiadny človek nezaťažuje svoju myseľ maličkosťami, pokiaľ na to nemá nejaký veľmi dobrý dôvod.“

“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.”

“You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.”

“Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.”

“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”

“You know my methods. Apply them.”

“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”

“He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.”

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.”

“There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.”

“Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.”

“The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.”

“It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.”

“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”

“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”

“To Sherlock Holmes she is alwayswoman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”

“I am lost without my Boswell.”

“The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”

“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”

“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.”

“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”

“I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.”