Cytaty z audiobooka «The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes»
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer – excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained teasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instru
had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air
regulation side whiskers
hinging upon that one point
nimble fingers were flying here
out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects
struck me as being a remarkable mixture of shrewdness and of absurdity
I should like to see him clapped down in a third class carriage on the Underground, and asked to give the trades of all his fellow-travellers. I would lay a thousand to one against him.”
who evolves all these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study
He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly
