The Hollow Man Quotes

“I am a mathematician, sir. I never permit myself to think.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Hollow Man

“I have committed another crime, Hadley,' he said. 'I have guessed the truth again.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Three Coffins

“It may be deplorable if a man is told a joke on Saturday night and suddenly bursts out laughing in church next morning. But it is much more deplorable if a man reads a terrifying ghost story on Saturday night, and two weeks later suddenly snaps his fingers and realizes that he ought to have been scared.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Three Coffins

“У цьому - суть більшості фокусів. Ви дивитесь на щось - і не бачите його або, навпаки, присягаєтесь нібито бачили те, чого взагалі не було (О'Рорк)


Друга труна. Загадка вулиці Каліостро. 14. Церковні дзвони”
― Андрій Євса, The Three Coffins

“Страшне перестає бути страшним, якщо його можна розв'язати, мов алгебраїчну задачу (доктор Гідеон Фелл)

Друга труна. Загадка вулиці Каліостро. 12. Картина”
― Андрій Євса, The Three Coffins

“Чудової пори дитинства, на жаль, не повернеш (доктор Гідеон Фелл)

Друга труна. Загадка вулиці Каліостро. 11. Вбивство-чаклунство”
― Андрій Євса, The Three Coffins

“Ви помічали, як легко висаджують двері в оповіданнях? Ті оповідання - просто золоте для для столярів. Цілими десятками двері висаджують із найменшого приводу, навіть якщо хтось усередині не бажає відповісти на випадкове запитання. Але спробуйте висадити перші-ліпші двері в цьому будинку. Це неможливо! (Менген)

Перша труна. Загадка кабінету вченого 7. Відвідувач Гай Фокс”
― Андрій Євса, The Three Coffins

“But, if you're going to analyse impossible situations,' interrupted Pettis, 'why discuss detective fiction?'

'Because,' said the doctor, frankly, 'we're in a detective story, and we don't fool the reader by pretending we're not. Let's not invent elaborate excuses to drag in a discussion of detective stories. Let's candidly glory in the noblest pursuits possible to characters in a book.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Hollow Man

“Rampole,”
― John Dickson Carr, The Three Coffins

“But for the greatest long - range murder ever committed in a locked room, gents, I commend you to one of the most brilliant short detective stories in the history of detective fiction. (In fact, it shares the honours for supreme untouchable top - notch excellence with Thomas Burke's The Hands of Mr Ottermole, Chesterton's The Man in the Passage, and Jacques Futrelle's The Problem of Cell 13.) This is Melville Davisson Post's The Doomdorf Mystery”
― John Dickson Carr, The Hollow Man

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― John Dickson Carr, The Hollow Man

“Every time he spoke, in fact, he had the appearance of thinly addressing an audience, raising and lowering his head as though from notes, and speaking in a penetrating singsong towards a point over his listeners' heads. You would have diagnosed a Physics B.Sc. with Socialist platform tendencies, and you would have been right.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Three Coffins