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.“

“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.”

“This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”

“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.”

“One must wait till it comes.”

“I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.”

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

“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.”

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

“Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.”

“It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.”

“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.”