"Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is…" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot."
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383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of…
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
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I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled…
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and…
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Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice…
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the…
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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester…
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means…
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have…
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More Afoot Quotes
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If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about,…
— Sun Tzu
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As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
— William Shakespeare
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There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so…
— H. L. Mencken
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their…
— Robert Grudin
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The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
— Horace Kephart
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great…
— Helen Keller
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For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new…
— Frantz Fanon
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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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Let's face it, the romantic scene between the Romulan Commander and Spock [in “The Enterprise Incident”] was totally out of…
— D. C. Fontana
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The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.
— Unknown Author
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Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened…
— Dallas Willard
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
— Henry David Thoreau
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