The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Quotes

“I followed you.'

I saw no one.'

That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Die Teufelskralle

“To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Die Teufelskralle

“I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Die Teufelskralle

“It would be superfluous to drive us mad, my dear Watson," said he. "A candid observer would certainly declare that we were so already before we embarked upon so wild an experiment.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

“I have heard your reasons and regard them as unconvincing and inadequate.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Die Teufelskralle

“Holmes: "I followed you."
Sterndale: "I saw no one."
Holmes: "That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Die Teufelskralle