The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place Quotes

“Sir Robert is a man of honourable stock. But you do occasionally find a carrion crow among the eagles.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place

“We might, perhaps, enter the sacred domain to-night without fear of bodily assault.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place

“Is there good fishing in that part of Berkshire?’
The honest trainer showed very clearly upon his face that he was convinced that yet another lunatic had come into his harassed life.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place

“These are deep waters, Mr. Mason; deep and rather dirty.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place

“He should have been a buck in the days of the Regency - a boxer, an athlete, a plunger on the turf, a lover of all fair ladies, and by all account, so far down Queer Street that he may never find his way back again.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place

“By, the way, Watson, you know something of racing?” “I ought to. I pay for it with about half my wound pension.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place