“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“You know,' I answered, with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes' heart before, 'that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“Though unmusical, German is the most expressive of all languages,”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“(...) We are bound to go.”
My answer was to rise from the table.
“You are right, Holmes. We are bound to go.”
He sprang up and shook me by the hand.
“I knew you would not shrink at the last,” said he, and for a moment I saw something in his eyes which was nearer to tenderness than I had ever seen. The next instant he was his masterful, practical self once more.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“This great and sombre stage is set for something
more worthy than that,” said he. “It is fortunate
for this community that I am not a criminal.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“There have,” said I, “been numerous petty thefts.”
Holmes snorted his contempt.
“This great and sombre stage is set for something more worthy than that,” said he. “It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“It would be superfluous to drive us mad, my dear Watson," said he. "A candid observer would certainly declare that we were so already before we embarked upon so wild an experiment.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“How do you know that?"
"I followed you."
"I saw no one."
"That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“By all means."
"The first three sensible words that you have uttered since you entered this room, Watson”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“Kāda gan tam ir nozīme, Vatson? - Holmss nopietni teica, nolikdams papīra lapu. - Kāds mērķis ir sasniegts ar šo bēdu, varmācības un šausmu apli? Tam ir jāvirzās uz kaut kādu mērķi, jo pretējā gadījumā taču pār mūsu pasauli valda nejaušība, kas ir neiedomājami. Bet uz kādu mērķi? Tas, lūk, ir pastāvīgais, mūžīgais jautājums, uz kuru cilvēka saprāts vēl joprojām nav spējis sniegt atbildi.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“But you, Holmes-you have changed very little-save for that horrible goatee."
"These are the sacrifices one makes for one's country, Watson," said Holmes, pulling at his little tuft. "To-morrow it will be but a dreadful memory.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“La educación no termina nunca, Watson. Es una serie de lecciones, de las cuales las más instructivas son las últimas.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“Esta vez, Watson, califíqueme en su relato como de burro completo.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“Él las detestaba y desconfiaba de ellas, pero era siempre un adversario caballeroso.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
“Brisa del mar, sol y paciencia, Watson; todo se andará.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
Arthur Conan Doyle
Born place: in Edinburgh, Scotland
Born date May 22, 1859
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“The Church’s war against women occurred not under Christ—who by all accounts held women as equals to men—but through the writings of St Irenaeus and Tertullian, and that most cruel woman-hater of them all, St Paul, whose hostile views on women were unfortunately included in the Bible. But let me be clear, it is not only a Catholic problem; it is a Christian one: Martin Luther, the scourge of the old Church, shares its views on women. He once wrote: “Girls begin to talk and to stand on their feet sooner than boys because weeds always grow up more quickly than good crops.” Weeds! Weeds!”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Tournament
“Coming home is hard." Ven said.
"It shouldn't be" Daleina said. "They love me. I love them. It should be easy."
"Once you leave, it's never easy again. Or at least it's never the same. You're not the same. You can't expect them to be.
She nodded. "Sometimes they feel like strangers. And still, I'd die to protect them.”
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“But these—they weren’t case updates so much as letters, the kind you wrote to someone you knew so well you could imagine them beside you, even when they were across an ocean, living out another life.”
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