"I think there are certain crimes which the……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge."
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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 Cannot Touch Quotes
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Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts…
— George W. Bush
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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot…
— Oprah Winfrey
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The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.
— Matthew McConaughey
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Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like…
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
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My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.
— Andre Kertesz
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I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.
— Edward Abbey
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Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch…
— Fernando Pessoa
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The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself…
— Gautama Buddha
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Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You…
— India.Arie
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You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the…
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage…
— Matthew Henry
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The amount which you understand the gospel is measured by your ability to be joyful in all circumstances. If you…
— J. D. Greear
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