His Last Bow Quotes

“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“How do you know that?"
"I followed you."
"I saw no one."
"That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“(...) We are bound to go.”
My answer was to rise from the table.
“You are right, Holmes. We are bound to go.”
He sprang up and shook me by the hand.
“I knew you would not shrink at the last,” said he, and for a moment I saw something in his eyes which was nearer to tenderness than I had ever seen. The next instant he was his masterful, practical self once more.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“There have,” said I, “been numerous petty thefts.”
Holmes snorted his contempt.
“This great and sombre stage is set for something more worthy than that,” said he. “It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“Sterndale sprang to his feet.
“I believe that you are the devil himself!” he cried.
Holmes smiled at the compliment.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“But you, Holmes-you have changed very little-save for that horrible goatee."
"These are the sacrifices one makes for one's country, Watson," said Holmes, pulling at his little tuft. "To-morrow it will be but a dreadful memory.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“Where is your warrant?”
Holmes half drew a revolver from his pocket. “This will have to serve till a better one comes.”
“Why, you’re a common burglar.”
“So you might describe me,” said Holmes cheerfully. “My companion is also a dangerous ruffian. And together we are going through your house.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“started”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow: Value Edition (ILLUSTRATED) Strand Illustrations

“One of the most dangerous classes in the world,' said he, 'is the drifting and friendless woman. She is the most harmless and often the most useful of mortals, but she is the inevitable inciter of crime in others. She is helpless. She is migratory. She has sufficient means to take her from country to country and from hotel to hotel. She is lost, as often as not, in a maze of obscure pensions and boarding-houses. She is a stray chicken in a world of foxes. When she is gobbled up she is hardly missed. I much fear that some evil has come to the Lady Frances Carfax.'

I was relieved at this sudden descent from the general to the particular.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

-The Adventure of the Dying Detective”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“Strange how the brain controls the brain!

-The Adventure of the Dying Detective”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“Have just had the most incredible and grotesque experience. May I consult you?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow