Цитаты из книги автора Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

You see, but you do not observe.

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact,”

To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story.

saved me from ennui,” he answered, yawning. “Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”

his own keen nature

his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.

while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive.

A nice little brougham