Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
actors crime stage
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
mother often-is imagination
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
statistics method holmes
You know my methods. Apply them.
running museums skulls
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
light giving people
Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.
strong cheer house
Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)
underestimate exaggeration oneself
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
dramatic
I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
rose gentleman may
I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.
lying humorous sarcasm
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
commonplace depends unnatural
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
coffee land sandwiches
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
rocks water gazing
As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.
boys simple men
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.