Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KGStJ, DL foi um escritor e médico britânico, nascido na Escócia, mundialmente famoso por suas 60 histórias sobre o detetive Sherlock Holmes, consideradas uma grande inovação no campo da literatura criminal. Foi um renomado e prolífico escritor cujos trabalhos incluem histórias de ficção científica, novelas históricas, peças e romances, poesias e obras de não-ficção.
Arthur Conan Doyle viveu e escreveu parte de suas obras em Southsea, um bairro elegante de Portsmouth.
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“O mundo está cheio de coisas obvias, que ninguém, em momento algum, observa!.”
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
The Hound of the Baskervilles - página 26, Arthur Conan Doyle, Forgotten Books, ISBN 1606800000, 9781606800003
Variante: Há muito tempo que o meu axioma é de que as pequenas coisas são infinitamente as mais importantes.
““Homens demoram a perceber que perderam o amor da mulher, por pior que a tenham tratado.“”
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - página 103, Arthur Conan Doyle, Forgotten Books, ISBN 1606800612, 9781606800614
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
O Signo dos Quatro e A Morte Chantagista
“Watson, usted todavía no ha apreciado mis habilidades de ama de casa.”
The Sign of Four
Variante: Watson, usted todavia no ha apreciado mis habilidades de ama de casa.
“Quando você elimina o impossível, o que sobra por mais incrível que pareça só pode ser a verdade.”
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
in "A Scandal in Bohemia", pronunciado pelo personagem Sherlock Holmes.
Variante: Quando já eliminaste o impossível, o que sobra, por mais improvável que pareça, só pode ser a verdade.
“Após haverdes eliminado o impossível, aquilo que resta, mesmo o improvável, deve ser a verdade.”
Variante: Uma vez eliminado o impossível, o que resta, por mais improvável que seja, deve ser a verdade.
“É um grande erro teorizar antes de ter todos os indícios. Prejudica o raciocínio.”
Sherlock Holmes - Edicao completa
Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Página 184 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=QcAjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA184, Arthur Conan Doyle - Jazzybee Verlag, 1930 - 228 páginas
“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”
Fonte: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”
Variante: There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Fonte: The Hound of the Baskervilles
“My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!”
Fonte: The Sign of Four
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Fonte: The Valley of Fear
Fonte: Adventure of the Abbey Grange
“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
Fonte: The Hound of the Baskervilles
“By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?"
Because I looked for it.”
Fonte: The Adventure of the Dancing Men
“Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”
Fonte: A Study in Scarlet
“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
Fonte: The Man with the Twisted Lip
“A change of work is the best rest.”
Fonte: The Sign of Four
Fonte: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
“He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.”
Fonte: His Last Bow: 8 Stories
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
The White Company (1891)
“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
Fonte: Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Creeping Man
Before showing test footage from the movie The Lost World, based upon his novel, as a trick at the annual meeting of the Society of American Magicians in 1922. The New York Times ran a story the next day: DINOSAURS CAVORT IN FILM FOR DOYLE SPIRITIST MYSTIFIES WORLD-FAMED MAGICIANS WITH PICTURES OF PREHISTORIC BEASTS — KEEPS ORIGIN A SECRET — MONSTERS OF OTHER AGES SHOWN, SOME FIGHTING, SOME AT PLAY, IN THEIR NATIVE JUNGLES
Contexto: These pictures are not occult, but they are psychic because everything that emanates from the human spirit or human brain is psychic. It is not supernatural; nothing is. It is preternatural in the sense that it is not known to our ordinary senses. It is the effect of the joining on the one hand of imagination, and on the other hand of some power of materialization. The imagination, I may say, comes from me — the materializing power from elsewhere.
The Stark Munro Letters (1894)
Contexto: The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time. Some eighty thousand years are supposed to have existed between paleolithic and neolithic man. Yet in all that time he only learned to grind his flint stones instead of chipping them. But within our father's lives what changes have there not been? The railway and the telegraph, chloroform and applied electricity. Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more. Primeval man stumbled along with peering eyes, and slow, uncertain footsteps. Now we walk briskly towards our unknown goal.
The Stark Munro Letters (1894)
Contexto: When you look closely it is a question whether that which is a wrong to the present community may not prove to have been a right to the interests of posterity. That sounds a little foggy; but I will make my meaning more clear when I say that I think right and wrong are both tools which are being wielded by those great hands which are shaping the destinies of the universe, that both are making for improvement; but that the action of the one is immediate, and that of the other more slow, but none the less certain. Our own distinction of right and wrong is founded too much upon the immediate convenience of the community, and does not inquire sufficiently deeply into the ultimate effect.
“Now we walk briskly towards our unknown goal.”
The Stark Munro Letters (1894)
Contexto: The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time. Some eighty thousand years are supposed to have existed between paleolithic and neolithic man. Yet in all that time he only learned to grind his flint stones instead of chipping them. But within our father's lives what changes have there not been? The railway and the telegraph, chloroform and applied electricity. Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more. Primeval man stumbled along with peering eyes, and slow, uncertain footsteps. Now we walk briskly towards our unknown goal.
The Stark Munro Letters (1894)
Contexto: The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time. Some eighty thousand years are supposed to have existed between paleolithic and neolithic man. Yet in all that time he only learned to grind his flint stones instead of chipping them. But within our father's lives what changes have there not been? The railway and the telegraph, chloroform and applied electricity. Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more. Primeval man stumbled along with peering eyes, and slow, uncertain footsteps. Now we walk briskly towards our unknown goal.
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
Fonte: The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
