The only unofficial consulting detective, he answered. I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection.
More Quotes from Arthur Conan:
My dear Watson, Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.Arthur Conan
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror
Arthur Conan
I am much mistaken, however, if he has not fine strata in his nature. He is capable of rising to heights as well as of sinking to depths.
Arthur Conan
Meanwhile, in the broad and lofty chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was pacing impatiently backwards and forwards, with his long white nervous hands clasped in front of him. His thin, thought-worn features and sunken, haggard cheeks bespoke one who had indeed beaten down that inner foe whom every man must face, but had none the less suffered sorely in the contest. In crushing his passions he had well-nigh crushed himself.
Arthur Conan
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
Arthur Conan
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: unofficialI have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
Andrew Greeley
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
Leslie Fiedler
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Christopher Lasch