Tales of Terror and Mystery Quotes

“His knowledge was greater than his wisdom, and his powers were far superior to his character.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery

“It was a singular bedroom, with its high walls of brown volumes, but there could be no more agreeable furniture to a bookworm like myself, and there is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. I assured him that I could desire no more charming chamber, and no more congenial surroundings.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery

“The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery

“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and no profession by which he may earn any.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery

“This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery

“I was expecting a rather long visit to Bankruptcy Court at the time, and this interruption seemed almost providential.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery

“His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery

“It is a rare thing for me to meet anyone who takes an intelligent interest in such matters. People can find time for such trivialities as sport or society, and yet the beetles are overlooked.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery

“The abominable goth!" he cried.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery

“... this imminent danger seemed to take bodily shape, and I could almost fancy that I saw this most loathsome and dangerous of all the fiends crouching closely in his very shadow, like a half-cowed beast which slinks beside its keeper, ready at any unguarded moment to spring at his throat.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery

“Monstrous.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Terror and Mystery

“-El charlatán es siempre el que va de descubierta. Del astrólogo salió el astrónomo, del alquimista el químico, y del mesmerismo, la psicología experimental. El charlatán de ayer será el profesor de mañana. Andando el tiempo, hasta una materia tan sutil y resbaladiza como la de los sueños será sistematizada y puesta en orden.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Cuentos De Terror / Tales of Terror